Maltanneus (ISBE)

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mal - ta - nē´us ( Μαλτανναῖος , Maltannaı́os , Codex Vaticanus and Swete, Ἀλτανναῖος , Altannaı́os , Codex Alexandrinus and Fritzsche - the "M" being perhaps dropped because of the final "M" in the preceding word; the King James Version Altaneus): One of the sons of Asom who put away his "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:33) = "Mattenai" in Ezra 10:33 .