Word

חָתָן

châthân · H2860 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences

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Meanings

bridegroom

Man who is about to be married or has just been married; often associated with joy

Examples
Exodus 4:25 So Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet; and she said, “You are indeed a groom of blood to me!”
Exodus 4:26 So He left him alone. At that time she said, “You are a groom of blood”—because of the circumcision.
Psalm 19:5 Which is like a groom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices like a strong person to run his course.
son-in-law

Husband of someone's daughter

Examples
Genesis 19:12 Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law and your sons and daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the LORD is destroying the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Judges 15:6 Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And some said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father to death with fire.
relative by marriage

Man that has become one's relative through marriage

Examples
2 Kings 8:27 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

8 occurrences in 5 groups

הוּhis 3
דָּםblood 2
בַּיִתhouse, household 1
מֶלֶךְking 1
תִּמְנִיTimnite 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָצָאto go out 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1
שִׁמְשׁוֹןSamson 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יָצָאto go out 1
כָּהַןto act as priest 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
יָצָאto go out 1
אָמַרto say 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 3
אַתָּהyou 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 4
כlike/as 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 3 groups

קוֹלvoice, sound 4
מָשׂוֹשׂjoy 1
עַיִןeye, sight 1

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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In the other Testament 1 word

νυμφίος nymphíos · G3566 · bridegroom: Greek νυμφίος (nymphios) translates Hebrew חָתָן (chatan) with direct semantic equivalence for the 'bridegroom' sense, representing the standard Septuagint rendering of this kinship/wedding role term.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Relatives001001003012: חָתָן names a bridegroom or son-in-law, a person related by marriage, used of the husband taken into a family by the marriage bond.

Word family 3 words

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

חָתַן châthan · H2859 · to intermarry, to make a marriage alliance, father-in-law · 33×חָתָןchâthân · H2860חֲתֻנָּה chăthunnâh · H2861 · wedding · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2860. chathan חָתָן noun masculine daughter's husband, bride-groom (as one who undergoes…

H2860. chathan
חָתָן noun masculine daughter's husband, bride-groom (as one who undergoes circumcision, see above; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חַתְנָא, and (also sister's husband, etc.); vulgar Arabic daughter's husband, then more Generally wife's and husband's relations; Sabean (Lihyân) חֿתן daughter's husband DHMEpigr. Denkm. 87; Assyrian —atanu, daughter's husband COTGloss) — absolute ׳ח 1Sa 18:18 1Sa 18:10t. + Gen 19:12 (where read ᵐ5 חֲתָנֶיךָ Ol Di); construct חֲתַן Exo 4:23 Exo 4:4t.; suffix חֲתָנוֺ Jdg 19:5; חֲתָנָיו Gen 19:14 (twice in verse); —
1 in relation to a father, daughter's husband, or bridegroom Gen 19:12, Gen 19:14 (׳ח בְּנֹתָיו לֹקְחֵי), Gen 19:14 (all J), Jdg 15:6; Jdg 19:5; 1Sa 18:18; 1Sa 22:14; Neh 6:18; Neh 13:28; see also אַחְאָב בֵּית חֲתַן 2Ki 8:27 son-in-law of the house of Ahad, said of Ahaziah, whose mother Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab.
2 in relation to the bride, bridegroom ׳ח לִי אַתָּה דָּמִים Exo 4:25 a bloody bridegroom art thou to me, compare Exo 4:26 (J; on this see WeProl. 1886, 355); || כַּלָּה Jer 7:34; Jer 16:9; Jer 25:10; Jer 33:11; Joe 2:16; in simile of ׳י's work for and delight in his people Isa 61:10; Isa 62:5; of sun Psa 19:6.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Relatives20 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