Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2859
חָתַן
chathankhaw-than'
relative; be related
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châthan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2859is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 23spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2859
to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage
The King James renders it: join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law.
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
chathan is rendered "relative; be related". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "relative".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:9Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.
The first use
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Genesis 34:9וְהִֽתְחַתְּנ֖וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifteen of the word's thirty-three uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: relative, and be related.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| relativeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 34:9Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves. |
| be relatedStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- father-in-law of10
- father-in-law his8
- to be son-in-law3
- and he became son-in-law2
- to father-in-law his2
- and intermarry with1
- and to intermarry1
- and you will intermarry1
- be son-in-law1
- father-in-law your1
- mother-in-law his1
- you will be a son-in-law1
and 1 more, 33 uses in all
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.
All 33, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
23 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
- חֹתֵ֣ן5
- חֹתֵ֥ן4
- חֹֽתְנ֗וֹ2
- חֹתְנ֑וֹ2
- לְהִתְחַתֵּ֖ן2
- הִתְחַתֵּ֥ן1
- הִתְחַתֵּ֣ן1
- וְהִֽתְחַתְּנ֖וּ1
- וְהִֽתְחַתַּנְתֶּ֥ם1
- וַיִּתְחַתֵּ֣ן1
- וַיִּתְחַתֵּ֖ן1
- וּ֨לְהִתְחַתֵּ֔ן1
and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)10HVqrmsc
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular8HVqrmsc/Sp3ms
- Hc/Vtw3ms2Hc/Vtw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Vqrmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vtcc
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVti2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vtcc
- Hc/Vtq2mp1Hc/Vtq2mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vtv2mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqrfsc/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqrmsc/Sp2ms
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HVtcc
Genesis
one use
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.
- וְהִֽתְחַתְּנ֖וּvehitchatenuconjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and intermarry with
Exodus
fifteen uses
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- חֹתְנ֖וֹchotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
- חֹֽתְנ֗וֹchotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
- חֹתֵ֣ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
- חֹתֵ֣ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
- חֹתֵ֥ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
- חֹתֶנְךָ֥chotenkhaverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law your
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
- חֹֽתְנ֗וֹchotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
- לְחֹ֣תְנ֔וֹlechotenopreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to father-in-law his
Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.
- חֹתֵ֥ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
- חֹתֵ֥ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
- חֹתֵ֣ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.
- לְחֹתְנ֑וֹlechotenopreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to father-in-law his
But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.
- חֹתֵ֥ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
- חֹתְנ֑וֹchotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.
- חֹתְנ֑וֹchotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
Numbers
one use
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
- חֹתֵ֣ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
Deuteronomy
two uses
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- תִתְחַתֵּ֖ןtitchatenverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will intermarry
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- חֹֽתַנְתּ֑וֹchotantoverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother-in-law his
Joshua
one use
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
- וְהִֽתְחַתַּנְתֶּ֥םvehitchatantemHc/Vtq2mptagged: and you will intermarry
Judges
five uses
Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
- חֹתֵ֨ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
- חֹתֵ֣ןchotenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: father-in-law of
His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.
- חֹֽתְנוֹ֙chotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
- חֹתְנ֔וֹchotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
- חֹתְנ֣וֹchotenoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: father-in-law his
1 Samuel
five uses
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
- תִּתְחַתֵּ֥ןtitchatenverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will be a son-in-law
Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
- הִתְחַתֵּ֥ןhitchatenverb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: be son-in-law
But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
- הִתְחַתֵּ֣ןhitchatenverb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be son-in-law
When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,
- לְהִתְחַתֵּ֖ןlehitchatenpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be son-in-law
David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
- לְהִתְחַתֵּ֖ןlehitchatenpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be son-in-law
1 Kings
one use
Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- וַיִּתְחַתֵּ֣ןvaiyitchatenHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he became son-in-law
2 Chronicles
one use
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.
- וַיִּתְחַתֵּ֖ןvaiyitchatenHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he became son-in-law
Ezra
one use
shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?
- וּ֨לְהִתְחַתֵּ֔ןulehitchatenconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to intermarry
The letters
Gematria 458· 1,108 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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.