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246 months ago

mATTHE dAVIS (a guest user) asked this question:

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246 months ago

   wrote:

matityahoo

My comment:

my cousin's name, an orthodox jew, is ma-TIT-yahoo. could be it is because of "grera" in the hebrew formation of sounds. also, in israel we celebrate hanukkah, and yehooda hamakkaby's father is "matityahoo" everywhere. so maybe it used to be "matat-yahoo" in the makkabee's era, but in today's israel (and for many centuries before) it is as i pronounce it.

246 months ago

   wrote:

matityahoo // matat-el // natan-el

My comment:

there are several ways of saying "gift of god", because there are several "gift" words; the suffix "yahoo" as in ELI-YAHOO (elija), also varies according to era and maybe geographic zone. the other suffix is "el" as in ISRA-EL. for some reason, MATTIYAHOO works for males, whereas MATATEL works for females, although the word "Matana" of which they are the derivatives, is female-gendered in Hebrew.

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246 months ago

   wrote:

It is NOT MatItyahoo, which is a common mistake, but MatAtyahoo.

246 months ago

   wrote:

îúúéäå, îúé

My comment:

You are right about the meaning of your name. The original Hebrew name is Mattityahu îúúéäå, (the father of Judas Maccabaeus)but the New Testament's Matthew is usually rendered in Hebrew as the short form îúé (Matti.)

As separate words, not in a name, "gift of God" would be îúú éä or îúú àì (Mattat Yah, Mattat El) -- or any number of other combinations, as there are quite a number of words both for gift and for God.

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246 months ago

   wrote:

Matthew is Matay, not Mati.

246 months ago

   wrote:

Clicked too soon: It is NOT MatItyahu, which is a common mistake, but MatAtyahu.

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246 months ago

John Kinory   wrote:

Matatyahu

My comment:

mem-tav-tav-yod-heh-vav (from right to left.

Matat = gift, yahu = God

My references:

www.hebrewtranslate.net for a file with the Hebrew letters