Mattan

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mattan
     gift. (1.) A priest of Baal, slain before his altar during the
     reformation under Jehoiada (2 Kings 11:18).
     
       (2.) The son of Eleazar, and father of Jacob, who was the
     father of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary (Matt. 1:15).


     
       (3.) The father of Shephatiah (Jer. 38:1).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Mattan, Mattana, Mattenai, gifts; rains