Gift
מַתַּתStrong’s H4991mattat (mat-tat)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mattat is the Hebrew word usually translated “gift of” and “gift”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.”
Meaning
- Gift, reward
How it's translated
- a gift of 2
- gift of 2
- a gift 1
- in a gift of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 25:14Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
- Ecclesiastes 3:13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 5:19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
- Ezekiel 46:5And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
- Ezekiel 46:11And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Hebrew dictionary
מַתַּת mattat · gift
gift, reward
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.