Mattena'i. (gift of Jehovah). A contraction of Mattaniah.
1. Two Israelites who divorced their Gentile wives after the return from the Babylonish captivity. Ezra 10:33; Ezra 10:37. (B.C. 469).
2. A priest, son of Joiarib, in the time of Joiakim. Nehemiah 12:19. (B.C. after 536).
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