Person Old Testament
Mattattah
Also known as Mattattah =ESV, NIV; Mattathah =KJV
Mattattah, a descendant of Hashum, divorced his foreign wife during Ezra's reforms. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:33.
Why it matters. Descendant of Hashum, who divorced his foreign wife.
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Mattattah
Mattattah was a man from the family of Hashum who had married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra. As part of Ezra's reforms to purify the Jewish community after their return from Babylonian exile, Mattattah and others who had married foreign wives were required to divorce them (Ezr.10.33). This action was taken to ensure that the Israelites remained faithful to the Lord and did not fall into the same sins that had led to their exile.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)