Gift
מַתָּןStrong’s H4976mattan (mat-tan)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mattan is the Hebrew word usually translated “gift”, “gift their” and “gift of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.”
Meaning
- Gifts, offerings, presents
How it's translated
- and a gift 1
- gift their 1
- gift of 1
- gift 1
- a gift 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 18:11And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
- Proverbs 18:16A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
- Proverbs 19:6Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
- Proverbs 21:14A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Hebrew dictionary
מַתָּן mattan · gift
gifts, offerings, presents
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gift” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GIFT, noun
[from give.]
A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.
- The act of giving or conferring.
- The right or power of giving or bestowing.
- An offering or oblation.“If thou bring thy gift to the altar” Matthew 5:23
- A reward.“Let thy gifts be to thyself” Daniel 5:17
All definitions and other forms of “gift”
- A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment.“Neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise” Deuteronomy 16:19
- Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule.
GIFT, verb transitive
To endow with any power or faculty.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.