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Lexicon :: Strong's H2859 - ḥāṯan

Aa
חָתַן
Transliteration
ḥāṯan
Pronunciation
khaw-than'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 781b

Strong’s Definitions

חָתַן châthan, khaw-than'; a primitive root; to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage:—join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x

The KJV translates Strong's H2859 in the following manner: law (27x), affinity (3x), marriages (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x
The KJV translates Strong's H2859 in the following manner: law (27x), affinity (3x), marriages (3x).

  1. to become a son-in-law, make oneself a daughter's husband

    1. (Qal) wife's father, wife's mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law (participle)

    2. (Hithpael) to make oneself a daughter's husband

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָתַן châthan, khaw-than'; a primitive root; to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage:—join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law.
STRONGS H2859: Abbreviations
† חֹתֵן verbal noun.
1. masculine wife's father (Arabic خَاتِنً a circumciser, hence father-in-law, with reference to circumcision performed on young men just before marriage; خَتَنً 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 Exodus 18:1 + 9 times, חֹתֶנְךָ Exodus 18:6, חֹתְנוֺ Exodus 3:1 + 9 times; — usually of Moses' wife's father Exodus 3:1; Exodus 4:18; Exodus 18:1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 (twice in verse); Exodus 18:14; Exodus 18:15; Exodus 18:17; Exodus 18:24; Exodus 18:27 (all E), Numbers 10:29 (J), Judges 1:16; Judges 4:11; of a Levite Judges 19:4, 7, 9.
2. feminine wife's mother, only suffix חֹתַנְתּוֺ Deuteronomy 27:23.

† II. חתן verb denominative only
Hithp. make oneself a daughter's husband (Late Hebrew Hithp. id., Aramaic Ithpa. id.) — Perfect 2nd person masculine plural וְהִתְחַתַּנְתֶּם consecutive Joshua 23:12; Imperfect וַיִּתְחַתֵּן 1 Kings 3:1; 2 Chronicles 18:1; 2nd person masculine תִּתְחַתֵּן Deuteronomy 7:3; 1 Samuel 18:21; Imperative הִתְחַתֵּן 1 Samuel 18:22, הִתְחַתְּנוּ Genesis 34:9; Infinitive הִתְחַתֵּן 1 Samuel 18:23 + 3 times; —
1. make oneself daughter's husband (son-in-law) to, with בְּ 1 Samuel 18:21, 22, 23, 26, 27; with אֶת 1 Kings 3:1; Genesis 34:9 (P); with לְ 2 Chronicles 18:1, of marriage of Jehoshaphat's son and Ahab's daughter (compare 2 Kings 8:18 2 Chronicles 21:6).
2. in general form marriage-alliance with, with בְּ Deuteronomy 7:3; Joshua 23:12 (D), Ezra 9:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:9; 34:9

Exodus

3:1; 3:1; 4:18; 18:1; 18:1; 18:2; 18:5; 18:6; 18:6; 18:7; 18:8; 18:12; 18:14; 18:15; 18:17; 18:24; 18:27

Numbers

10:29

Deuteronomy

7:3; 7:3; 27:23

Joshua

23:12; 23:12

Judges

1:16; 4:11; 19:4; 19:7; 19:9

1 Samuel

18:21; 18:21; 18:22; 18:22; 18:23; 18:23; 18:26; 18:27

1 Kings

3:1; 3:1

2 Kings

8:18

2 Chronicles

18:1; 18:1; 21:6

Ezra

9:14

H2859

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Strong's Number H2859 matches the Hebrew חָתַן (ḥāṯan),
which occurs 33 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:9 - And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:1 - Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2 - And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:6 - And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:8 - And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:12 - Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:14 - And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:15 - And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:17 - And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24 - So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:27 - And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:29 - Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:3 - Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:23 - Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:12 - For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:11 - Now Heber the Kenite, separating himself from the rest of the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, had put up his tent as far away as the oak-tree in Zaanannim, by Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:7 - And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:21 - And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 - And Saul gave his servants orders saying, Have talk with David secretly and say to him, See how the king has delight in you, and how you are loved by all his servants: then be the king's son-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:23 - And Saul's servants said these things to David. And David said, Does it seem to you a small thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, of no great name?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:26 - And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27 - So David and his men got up and went, and put to death two hundred of the Philistines; and David took their private parts and gave the full number of them to the king, so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1 - Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:1 - Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?
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