Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H209
אוֹנָן
onano-nawn'
Onan
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÔwnân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H209is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H209
Onan, a son of Judah
The King James renders it: Onan.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
onan is rendered "Onan". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:4Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
Genesis 38:4אוֹנָֽן׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and Onan5
- Onan2
- to Onan1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְאוֹנָן֙2
- אוֹנָ֔ן1
- אוֹנָֽן׃1
- וְאוֹנָ֛ן1
- וְאוֹנָ֑ן1
- וְאוֹנָ֖ן1
- לְאוֹנָ֔ן1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5HC/Npm
- proper noun (a name)2HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
Genesis
five uses
Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
- אוֹנָֽן׃ʾonanproper noun (a name)tagged: Onan
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- לְאוֹנָ֔ןleonanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Onan
But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
- אוֹנָ֔ןʾonanproper noun (a name)tagged: Onan
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
- וְאוֹנָ֛ןveonanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Onan
- וְאוֹנָן֙veonanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Onan
Numbers
two uses
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
- וְאוֹנָ֑ןveonanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Onan
- וְאוֹנָ֖ןveonanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Onan
1 Chronicles
one use
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.
- וְאוֹנָן֙veonanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Onan
The letters
Gematria 107· 757 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.