(Mat·teʹnai) [shortened form of Mattaniah, meaning “Gift of Jehovah”].

1. An Israelite “of the sons of Hashum” who had taken foreign wives but sent them away in Ezra’s time.​—Ezr 10:25, 33, 44.

 2. An Israelite “of the sons of Bani” who sent away their foreign wives in Ezra’s day.​—Ezr 10:25, 34, 37, 44.

3. A priest in the days of Joiakim who was the head of the paternal house of Joiarib.​—Ne 12:12, 19.