mat'-an (mattan, "a gift"):
(1) A priest in the house of Baal, slain by Jehoiada before Baal's altar (2Ki 11:18;2Ch 23:17).
(2) The father of Shephatiah a contemporary and persecutor of Jeremiah (Jer 38:1), one of those who put Jeremiah into Malechiah's dungeon (38:6).