noun · masculine

mattatha

GreekΜατταθά (mattatha)

Strong’sG3160

Mattatha

stem mattath-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Mattatha1×

What it means

Ματταθά, ὁ,

indecl. (Heb. מַתַּתָּה),

Mattatha: Lk 3:31.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3160 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmat-tath-ah'

Mattatha (i.e. Mattithjah), an Israelite

Fromprobably a shortened form of G3161 (compare G4992);

King JamesMattatha.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	mattatha	mattatha
object accusative	mattatha	mattatha
direct address vocative	mattatha	mattatha
of, belonging to genitive	mattatha1×Ματταθὰ	mattatha
to, for dative	mattatha	mattatha

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

mattathastem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mattatha“Mattatha”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Luke 3:31“Mattatha”tou Melea tou Menna tou Mattatha tou Natham tou Davidthe son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,