מַתָּת
mattâth · H4991 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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gift
Object given to someone else
Examples1 Kings 13:7 Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a gift.”
Proverbs 25:14 Like clouds and wind without rain Is a person who boasts of his gifts falsely.
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what one wants to give
Literally: a gift of (one's) hands; hence: as much of a certain substance as one wants to give
ExamplesEzekiel 46:5 and the grain offering shall be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs as much as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.
Ezekiel 46:11 “At the festivals and the appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.
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gift, privilege
A privilege granted by a deity resulting in the ability to engage in certain activities
ExamplesEcclesiastes 3:13 moreover, that every person who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Furthermore, as for every person to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also given him the opportunity to enjoy them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- יָדhand, power 2
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 2
- שֶׁקֶרlie, falsehood, false 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- זֹהthis 1
- מִנְחָהgrain offering, gift, tribute 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- δόμα dóma · G1390 · gift
- Greek δόμα is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew מַתָּת, both denoting a gift or present given from one party to another.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Objects001
- מַתָּת denotes a gift, most often God's gift to a person of the ability to enjoy the fruit of their labor, as in Ecclesiastes 3:13 and 5:19, and a gift given to the man of God by the king (1 Kings 13:7).
- Quantity002001001046
- The word can also carry the sense of an allotted portion or share given to someone, tying it to the amount or measure of what one receives as one's given lot in life.
- Engage002003003011
- Ecclesiastes' repeated use of the term for the gift of being able to labor and find enjoyment in one's work associates it with active engagement in one's occupation, not merely the passive receipt of an object.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4991. mattath [מַתַּת] noun feminine id.; — absolute מַתָּ֑ת 1Ki 13:7; construct מַתַּת…
[מַתַּת] noun feminine id.; — absolute מַתָּ֑ת 1Ki 13:7; construct מַתַּת Pro 25:14 Pro 25:4t.; — gift = reward 1Ki 13:7; יָדוֺ מַתַּת the gift of his hand, i.e. of his power, what he is able to give Eze 46:5, Eze 46:11 (compare מַתָּנָה and יָד
2); ׳מ אֱלֹהִים Ecc 3:13 the gift of God (of the enjoyment of man), so Ecc 5:18; ׳מ שָׁ֑קֶר Pro 25:14 a gift of falsity, i.e. one promised and not given.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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