Gift
מַתְּנָאStrong’s H4979mattna (mat-t-na)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mattna is the Hebrew word usually translated “gifts”, “gift” and “gifts your”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.”
Meaning
- Gift
How it's translated
- gifts 4
- a gift 4
- gifts your 3
- gifts of 1
- according to gift of 1
- and gifts 1
- a bribe 1
- by gifts their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 5
- Numbers 3
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:38And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
- Leviticus 23:38Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
- Numbers 18:6And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Numbers 18:7Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
- Numbers 18:29Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
- Deuteronomy 16:17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Hebrew dictionary
מַתְּנָא mattna · gift
gift Aramaic of mat.ta.nah (מַתָּנָה "gift" H4979)
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.