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חָתַן

châthan · H2859 · Hebrew · 33 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to intermarry, to make a marriage alliance

    Action by which humans contract affinity by intermarriage with another person or community

    Examples

    Genesis 34:9 “And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

    Deuteronomy 7:3 “Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

    Joshua 23:12 “For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain with you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

  2. father-in-law

    Father of one's spouse

    Examples

    Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

    Exodus 4:18 Then Moses departed and returned to his father-in-law Jethro, and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

    Exodus 18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  3. mother-in-law

    Mother of one's spouse

    Examples

    Deuteronomy 27:23 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

How it’s used In 9 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

11 occurrences in 5 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 7 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

22 occurrences in 3 groups

Named alongside itApposition

12 occurrences in 7 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 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 2 entries
Associate002003002002
חָתַן describes entering into a marriage alliance, joining families together through marriage, as when a father gives his daughter to make an affinity with another family.
Relatives001001003012
The word also functions as a relational term for an in-law, a father-in-law or son-in-law connected by marriage rather than blood.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָתַןchâthan · H2859חָתָן châthân · H2860 · bridegroom, son-in-law · 20×חֲתֻנָּה chăthunnâh · H2861 · wedding · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2859. chathan חֹתֵן verbal noun 1. masculine wife's father (Arabic a circumciser, hence…
H2859. chathan
חֹתֵן verbal noun 1. masculine wife's father (Arabic a circumciser, hence father-in-law, with reference to circumcision performed on young men just before marriage; relation on wife's side; see WeProl. 1886, 355 Anm, 1; Skizzen iii, 154 StaZAW 1886. 143 Aum. NöZMG 1886, 187; otherwise DlPr 91 LagBN 116) — construct חֹתֵן Exo 18:1 + 9t., חֹתֶנְךָ Exo 18:6, חֹתְנוֺ Exo 3:1+ 9 t.; — usually of Moses' wife's father Exo 3:1; Exo 4:18; Exo 18:1-2, Exo 18:5, Exo 18:6, Exo 18:7, Exo 18:8, Exo 18:12 (twice in verse); Exo 18:14; Exo 18:15; Exo 18:17; Exo 18:24; Exo 18:27 (all E), Num 10:29 (J), Jdg 1:16; Jdg 4:11; of a Levite Jdg 19:4, Jdg 19:7, Jdg 19:9.
2. feminine wife's mother, only suffix חֹתַנְתּוֺ Deu 27:23.
II. חתן verb denominative only
Hithpa`el make oneself a daughter's husband (Late Hebrew Hithpa`el id., Aramaic Ithpa`al id.) — Perfect2masculine plural וְהִתְחַתַּנְתֶּם consecutive Jos 23:12; Imperfect וַיִּתְחַתֵּן 1Ki 3:1; 2Ch 18:1-2; masculine תִּתְחַתֵּן Deu 7:3; 1Sa 18:21; Imperative הִתְחַתֵּן 1Sa 18:22, הִתְחַתְּנוּ Gen 34:9; Infinitive הִתְחַתֵּן 1Sa 18:23 1Sa 18:3t.; —
1 make oneself daughter's husband (son-in-law) to, with בְּ 1Sa 18:21-22, 1Sa 18:23, 1Sa 18:26, 1Sa 18:27; with אֶת 1Ki 3:1; Gen 34:9 (P); with לְ2Ch 18:1, of marriage of Jehoshaphat's son and Ahab's daughter (compare 2Ki 8:18 2Ch 21:6).
2 in General form marriage-alliance with, with בְּ Deu 7:3; Jos 23:12 (D), Ezr 9:14.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Relatives23 occurrencesMarry11 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

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