mal-ta-nē´us (Μαλτανναῖος, MaltannaıÌos, Codex Vaticanus and Swete, Ἀλτανναῖος, AltannaıÌos, 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 .