Bible Names

Mattan: meaning of the name

Mattan means “Mattana, Mattenai, gifts; rains.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Mattan in Hebrew and Greek

מַתָּן H4977

Mattân (mat-tawn') — Mattan, the name of a priest of Baal, and of an Israelite

the same as H4976 (מַתָּן);

People named Mattan in the Bible

Mattan in Scripture

“Mattan” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 11:18

    And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chronicles 23:17

    Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

  • Jeremiah 38:1

    Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,