H4992 H4992
Mattattah (personal name: Israelite who married foreign wife)
A personal name appearing in Ezra's list of men who had taken foreign wives during the post-exilic period. The name appears in Ezra 10:33 among those who pledged to divorce their non-Israelite spouses as part of the community's covenant renewal. The Septuagint renders this variously as Atha or Maththatha, showing the typical variation in Greek transliteration of Hebrew names. The name may derive from a root meaning 'gift,' though the etymology is uncertain.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Personal name of an Israelite man listed in Ezra 10:33 as one who had married a foreign woman during the exile period. The list represents those who responded to Ezra's call for covenant faithfulness by agreeing to dissolve mixed marriages. Translators across languages simply transliterate the name: English 'Mattattah,' Spanish 'Matatah,' preserving the Hebrew consonants with slight variation in vowel pointing. This represents a single historical individual in a specific moment of communal reform. 1×
AR["مَتَّاثَا"]·ben["মত্তাটা"]·DE["[מתתה]"]·EN["Mattattah"]·FR["[מתתה]"]·heb["מתתה"]·HI["मत्तत्ताह"]·ID["Matata"]·IT["[מתתה]"]·jav["Matata"]·KO["마다다와"]·PT["Mattattah"]·RU["Маттаттаху"]·ES["Matatah"]·SW["Matata"]·TR["Mattata"]·urd["متَتّہ"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† מֵתַּתָּה n.pr.m. one of those who took foreign wives Ezr 10:33, 𝔊 Αθα, A 𝔊L Μαθθαθ(α).