וּלְיוֹיָרִ֣יב מַתְּנַ֔י לִֽידַֽעְיָ֖ה עֻזִּֽי
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Nehemiah 12:19
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Nehemiah 12:19 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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World English Bible Public Domain
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Vnder Ioiarib, Mattenai, vnder Iedaiah, Vzzi,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia, Azzi:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Mattenai was the leader of Joiarib, Uzzi was the leader of Jedaiah,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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מַתְּנַ֔י
Mattᵉnay
H4982
“Mattenai”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ezra 10:33
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Mattenai = "gift of Jehovah"
- a priest, son of Joiarib, in the time of Joiakim
- an Israelite who had and put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- another Israelite who had and put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
The Septuagint has no separate book of Nehemiah. Its Greek text is the second half of Esdras B (2 Esdras), chapters 11–23; Ezra is the first half (1–10).
A verse-for-verse comparison isn’t shown here because the chapters and verses don’t line up. Switch to the LXX edition with the MT / LXX toggle above to read the Greek directly.
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Lesson kit
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Nehemiah, in the Historical, opens this verse with 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mattᵉnay (“Mattenai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Mattenai” (Mattᵉnay) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Ezra 10:33 shares the word «Mattenai» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Reading how Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Commentary
Notes on Nehemiah 12:19 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.