BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4980
mat.ta.nah — Mattanah
§ Mattanah = "gift of Jehovah" a station of the Israelites in the latter part of their wanderings located east of the Jordan and probably to the southeast of the Dead Sea
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →A gift, a station of the Israelites (Num. 21:18, 19) between the desert and the borders of Moab, in the Wady Waleh.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
