MATTANIA. – Name of various Israelites mentioned in the Bible (Hebrew: Mattañāhu and Mattañāh; contracted Matnaj, in Esd. 10:33, 37; Neh. 12:19; “gift of Jahweh”).
1. King of Judah:
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2–7. Six Jews who sent away the foreign women whom they had married (Esd. 10:26 ff., 30, 33, 36 f.). – 8. Levitical family of the lineage of Asaph (I Par. 9:15; II Par. 20:14; 29:13; Neh. 11:17, 22; 12:8, 35; 13:13). – 9. Levite of the sons of Haman (I Par. 25:4, 16). – 10. Levite gatekeeper (Neh. 12:25). – 11. Head of a priestly family of the class of Ioiarib (Neh. 12:19).BIBL.: F. Zorell, Lexicon hebraicum, Rome 1944, p. 488; L. Marchal, Les Paralipomènes (La Ste Bible), ed. L. Pirot, 4, Paris 1949, pp. 109, 188; A. Médebielle, Esdras-Néhémie, there 1949, pp. 324 f., 373, 379. Francesco Spadafora