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אוֹן

ʼôwn · H202 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. strength

    State of being physically strong and healthy which usually includes the ability of producing children

    Examples

    Genesis 49:3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

    Deuteronomy 21:17 “On the contrary, he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of everything that he owns, for he was the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.

    Job 18:7 “His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own plan brings him down.

  2. manhood

    Stage of having grown into full manhood

    Examples

    Hosea 12:3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his mature strength he contended with God.

  3. wealth

    Material possessions such as gold, silver, animals and slaves, which usually results in a position of honor and power

    Examples

    Job 20:10 “His sons favor the poor, And his hands give back his wealth.

    Proverbs 11:7 When a wicked person dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of strong people perishes.

    Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said, “I have certainly become rich, I have found wealth for myself; In all my labors they will find in me No wrongdoing, which would be sin.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

7 occurrences in 3 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 4 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 5 entries
Strong002001001063
אוֹן names vigor or strength, as Reuben described as his father's “might and the beginning of his strength” (Genesis 49:3).
Stage002001001060
The word marks the beginning stage of a father's procreative strength, as Reuben's status as “the beginning of his strength” (Genesis 49:3).
Objects001
אוֹן can denote wealth or substance as a category of possessed goods, as sons giving back their wealth with their own hands (Job 20:10).
Names of Locations003001010
This entry carries no independent place-name sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the common noun for vigor or strength, as in “the first and best of their vigor in the tents of Ham” (Psalm 78:51). The “Names of Locations” domain is bundle-shared with אוֹן (ʼÔwn, H203) and אוֹן (ʼÔwn, H204).
Names of People003001007
אוֹן additionally serves as a personal name, On the son of Peleth among the Reubenites who joined Korah's rebellion (Numbers 16:1, tagged under a related form rather than under this lexeme's own occurrences); this domain reflects that shared personal-name association rather than an independently tagged occurrence of אוֹן (ʼôwn, H202) itself.
Word family 1 word

This word has no family of its own: these words share its root.

הוֹן hôwn · H1952 · wealth, enough · 26×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H202. on I. אוֺן noun masculine vigour, wealth — absolute Hos 12:9, suffix אוֺנִי Gen…
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I. אוֺן noun masculine vigour, wealth — absolute Hos 12:9, suffix אוֺנִי Gen 49:3 + etc.; plural אוֺנִים Psa 78:51 +.
1 manly vigour אֶתאֱֿלֹהִים שָׂרָה בְּאוֺנוֺ Hos 12:4 (of Jacob); אוֺן רֵאשִׁית beginning of manly vigour Gen 49:3 (of Reuben, first-born of Jacob); Deu 21:17; Psa 105:36 (firstborn Egyptians), so Psa 78:51, אוֺנִים רֵאשִׁית where ׳א is assimilated to מִצְרַיִם, or intensive plural
2 strength of man Job 18:7, Job 18:12; behemoth Job 40:16; plural intensive אוֺנִים מֵרֹב Isa 40:26 because of the abundance of great strength (of God); of man אוֺנִים אֵין Isa 40:29 one not having strength; אוֺנִים תּוֺחֶלֶת Pro 11:7 hope in strength (not the hope of iniquity RV, or of unjust men AV).
3 wealth Job 20:10; Hos 12:9 א ׳מָצָאתִי לִי (|| עָשַׁרְתִּי).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 5 entries
Objects3 occurrencesStage1 occurrenceStrong9 occurrencesNames of People0 occurrencesNames of Locations0 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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