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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2860

חָתָן

chathankhaw-thawn'

son-in-law

20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: châthân

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2860is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2860

a relative by marriage (especially through the bride); figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal)

The King James renders it: bridegroom, husband, 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 "son-in-law". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:12Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

Genesis 19:12חָתָן֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a bridegroom5
  • a son-in-law4
  • a bridegroom of2
  • son-in-law of2
  • sons-in-law his2
  • and son-in-law of1
  • bridegroom1
  • like a bridegroom1
  • like the bridegroom1
  • son-in-law his1

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.

חָתָהchathahto snatch upUses4

The words it stands beside

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 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

  • חָתָ֖ן5
  • חָתָן֙3
  • חֲתַ֥ן2
  • וַחֲתַ֥ן1
  • חֲתַ֣ן1
  • חָתָ֥ן1
  • חָתָן֮1
  • חֲתַן־1
  • חֲתָנ֗וֹ1
  • חֲתָנָ֣יו׀1
  • חֲתָנָֽיו׃1
  • כְּ֭חָתָן1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular10HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa

Genesis

three uses
  • Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

    Genesis 19:12

    • חָתָן֙chatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a son-in-law
  • So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

    Genesis 19:14

    • חֲתָנָ֣יו׀chatanavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sons-in-law his
    • חֲתָנָֽיו׃chatanavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sons-in-law his

Exodus

two uses
  • But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

    Exodus 4:25

    • חֲתַן־chatan-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a bridegroom of
  • So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)

    Exodus 4:26

    • חֲתַ֥ןchatannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a bridegroom of

Judges

two uses
  • “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

    Judges 15:6

    • חֲתַ֣ןchatannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: son-in-law of
  • On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”

    Judges 19:5

    • חֲתָנ֗וֹchatanonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: son-in-law his

1 Samuel

two uses
  • And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

    1 Samuel 18:18

    • חָתָ֖ןchatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a son-in-law
  • Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?

    1 Samuel 22:14

    • וַחֲתַ֥ןvachatanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and son-in-law of

2 Kings

one use
  • And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

    2 Kings 8:27

    • חֲתַ֥ןchatannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: son-in-law of

Nehemiah

two uses
  • For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

    Nehemiah 6:18

    • חָתָ֥ןchatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a son-in-law
  • Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

    Nehemiah 13:28

    • חָתָ֖ןchatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a son-in-law

Psalms

one use
  • Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

    Psalms 19:5

    • כְּ֭חָתָןkechatonpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a bridegroom

Isaiah

two uses
  • I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

    Isaiah 61:10

    • כֶּֽחָתָן֙kechatanpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the bridegroom
  • For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

    Isaiah 62:5

    • חָתָן֙chatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a bridegroom

Jeremiah

four uses
  • I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

    Jeremiah 7:34

    • חָתָ֖ןchatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a bridegroom
  • For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

    Jeremiah 16:9

    • חָתָ֖ןchatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a bridegroom
  • Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

    Jeremiah 25:10

    • חָתָ֖ןchatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a bridegroom
  • the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.

    Jeremiah 33:11

    • חָתָן֮chatannoun · masculine singulartagged: a bridegroom

Joel

one use
  • Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

    Joel 2:16

    • חָתָן֙chatannoun · masculine singulartagged: bridegroom

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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