Attai
at.tay is a personal name borne by individuals in genealogical and list contexts in Scripture.
The attested form functions as a proper personal name: it identifies a child in two genealogical statements, a member of a family list, and an individual in a numbered list.
Senses in use
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Personal name in genealogies and lists · dominant
All four occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In 1 Chronicles 2:35 the APB renders a birth statement ending with “she bore Attai to him,” and in 1 Chronicles 2:36 it renders “Attai begot Nathan”; 2 Chronicles 11:20 places the name among children borne to a father, while 1 Chronicles 12:12 includes it in a numbered list.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as “Attai” in the genealogical clauses of 1 Chronicles 2:35 and 1 Chronicles 2:36 and in the family list of 2 Chronicles 11:20. In 1 Chronicles 12:12, its specific contribution is not clear from the translation’s wording, which gives only “Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth.”