Mattathias
Mattathias (Hebrew: מתתיהו בןיחאנן הכהן, Matitiyahu or
Matisyahu ben Yochanan HaCohen in Hebrew) was a Jewish priest
whose role in the Jewish revolt against the Syrian Greeks is
related in the Books of the Maccabees. Mattathias is accorded
a central role in the story of Chanukah and, as a result, is
named in the Al Hanissim prayer Jews add to...
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Which was [the son] of Mattathias, which was [the son] of
Amos, which was [the son] of Naum, which was [the son] of
Esli, which was [the son] of Nagge,...
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Which was [the son] of Maath, which was [the son] of
Mattathias, which was [the son] of Semei, which was [the son]
of Joseph, which was [the son] of Juda,...
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mat-a-thi'-as (Mattathias). The persons of this name in the
Apocrypha are:
(1) Mattathias the father of the Maccabees.
See ASMONEANS; MACCABEES.
(2) One of the 7 who stood on Ezra's right hand as he read
the law (1 Esdras 9:43) = "Mattithiah" of Neh 8:4.
(3) The son--probably the youngest (compare 1 Macc 16:2)--of
Simon the Maccabean, treacherou...
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-An ancestor of Jesus
Lu 3:25,26...
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(gift of Jehovah), the Greek form of Mattathiah.
1. Son of Amos, in the genealogy of Christ. Lu 3:25
(B.C. after 406.)
2. Son of Semei. Lu 3:26
3. The father of the Maccabees. (B.C. 168 and
previous.)...
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ibid. (1.) The son of Amos, in the genealogy of our Lord (Luke
3:25).
(2.) The son of Semei, in the same genealogy (Luke
3:26)....
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