Matan or Mattan (original Biblical translation: Mattan, modern Israeli translation: Matan, , ) is a

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name, mostly for males in

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. It is coming from the word 'gift' and literally means "giving". It is part of the title of the

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of Shavuot that is also known as "Z'man Mattan Torah" meaning " hetime f thegiving f the

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." A biblical reference for a Mattan as a given name is the story told in

Books of Kings The Book of Kings (, ''Sefer (Hebrew), Sēfer Malik, Məlāḵīm'') is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history, a history of ancient Is ...

about the

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Mattan, killed by the people of the

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during a revolution. In the

Gospel of Matthew The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells the story of who the author believes is Israel's messiah (Christ (title), Christ), Jesus, resurrection of Jesus, his res ...

Matthan This list contains persons named in the Bible in the New Testament of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections. A Abihud Abihud or Abiud was the son of Zerubbabel according to ...

is the paternal grandfather of

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, father of

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. King

Zedekiah Zedekiah ( ; born Mattaniah; 618 BC – after 586 BC) was the twentieth and final King of Judah before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. After the siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II deposed king Jec ...

's birth name was originally Mattanyahu.

People

* Matan Balestra (born 1992), Israeli footballer currently playing for Sektzia Nes Tziona on loan from Maccabi Netanya * Matan Baltaxa (born 1995), Israeli footballer currently playing for Hapoel Acre * Matan Barashi (born 1988), Israeli footballer currently playing for Ironi Beit Shemesh * Matan Cohen (born 1982), Israeli musician * Matan Even (born 2007), American comedian and activist * Matan Hodorov (born 1985), Israeli television commentator * Matan Hozez (born 1996), Israeli footballer currently playing for Bnei Yehuda *

Matan Kahana Matan Kahana (; born 29 July 1972) is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Religious Services and as a member of Knesset for New Right and Yamina. He was an officer in the IDF with the rank of colonel, who served as a combat soldi ...

(born 1972), Israeli politician * Matan Naor (born 1980), Israeli basketball player * Matan Ohayon (born 1986), Israeli footballer currently playing for Israeli club Hapoel Be'er Sheva * Matan Porat (born 1982), Israeli pianist and composer * Matan Roditi (born 1998), Israeli Olympic marathon swimmer * Matan Vilnai (born 1944), Israeli politician and military officer * Matan Zohar (born 1990), British musician *

Nur Matan Abdi Nur Matan Abdi is a Somali politician and military commander who served in the Transitional Federal Parliament of Somalia in the 2000s. He was one of the commanders of the Somali National Army during the 2009 phase of the Somali Civil War The ...

, Somali politician and military commander {{given name Hebrew unisex given names