MATTENAI

(Mat·teʹnai) [gift of Jehovah].

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

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

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