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Mattaniah

A man, in the time of Exile and Return · named in 1 verse

the name means gift of Jah Strong's Lexicon

Mattaniah, a descendant of Elam, divorced his foreign wife during Ezra's reforms.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Gift of Jehovah. (1.) A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple singers (1 Chr. 25:4, 16).

Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.

First named at Ezra 10:27.

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