Word

אוֹנָן

ʼÔwnân · H209 · Hebrew · proper noun · 8 occurrences

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Person

Onanfirst named in Genesis 38:46 verses

Meanings

Onan

The second son of Judah, killed by God because he refused to fulfill his duty toward his dead brother

Examples
Genesis 38:4 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
Genesis 38:8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Have relations with your brother’s wife and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a child for your brother.”
Genesis 38:9 Now Onan knew that the child would not be his; so when he had relations with his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground so that he would not give a child to his brother.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

מוּתto die 2
יָדַעto know 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 3

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 2

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 1 entry

Names of People003001007: אוֹנָן is the personal name of Judah's son who refused to raise up offspring for his deceased brother.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H209. Onan אוֺנָן proper name, masculine (vigorous) son of Judah Gen 38:4, Gen 38:8, Gen…

H209. Onan
אוֺנָן proper name, masculine (vigorous) son of Judah Gen 38:4, Gen 38:8, Gen 38:9; Gen 46:12 (twice in verse); Num 26:19 (twice in verse); 1Ch 2:3.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People8 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