Lexical Summary Tattenay: Tattenay Original Word: תַּתְּנַיTransliteration: Tattenay Phonetic Spelling: (tat-ten-ah'-ee) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: Tattenay Meaning: Tattenai Strong's Concordance Tattenai, a PersianOf foreign derivation; Tattenai, a Persian -- Tatnai. Brown-Driver-Briggs H8674. Tattenay תַּתְּנַי proper name, masculine Persian prefect in Syria; — Ezra 5:3, 6; 6:6, 13; Θανθανας, A Θαθθαναι; ᵐ5L Τανθαναιος, Σισιννης; also 3 Esdr 6:3; 7:26 JosAnt. xi. 12, 89, etc. (LagPsalt. Hieron.162 n.; AS§135 n.; MeyEntst. J. 32 assumes Old Persian * Thithnaya, or *Thathnaia); but Uštanni, Uštanu, was prefect in Syria under Darius, according to contract tablets. See StrassmDarius 27, 82; names probably identical; MeissnZAW xvii (1897), 191 f. reads therefore ושׁתני (וַשְׁתָּנִי Hpt), compare Buhl GuEzr-Neh.63; Scheft94, however, thinks תתני = תסני Old Persian th¹sna, Avestan s¹sna (teaching), and this transposed in New Babylonian Uštanu |