Hebrew noun (masculine) · H868
אֶתְנַן
ethnaneth-nan'
wages
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼethnan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H868is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H868
a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)
The King James renders it: hire, reward.
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
ethnan is rendered "wages". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 23:18אֶתְנַ֨ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- hire of a prostitute4
- and hire its1
- and hire of a prostitute1
- from hire of1
- hire of1
- hires its1
- price of1
- to hire its1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- אֶתְנַ֨ן1
- אֶתְנַ֖ן1
- אֶתְנַ֥ן1
- אֶתְנָ֗ן1
- אֶתְנָ֔ן1
- אֶתְנָֽן׃1
- אֶתְנַנֶּ֙יהָ֙1
- וְאֶתְנַ֛ן1
- וְאֶתְנַנָּ֗הּ1
- לְאֶתְנַנָּ֑ה1
- מֵאֶתְנַ֤ן1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3fs
Deuteronomy
one use
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- אֶתְנַ֨ןʾetnannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: price of
Isaiah
two uses
And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
- לְאֶתְנַנָּ֑הleetnanahpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to hire its
Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
- וְאֶתְנַנָּ֗הּveetnanahconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and hire its
Ezekiel
four uses
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
- אֶתְנָֽן׃ʾetnannoun · masculine singulartagged: hire of a prostitute
So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!
- אֶתְנָ֗ןʾetnannoun · masculine singulartagged: hire of a prostitute
- וְאֶתְנַ֛ןveetnanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and hire of a prostitute
Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
- אֶתְנַ֖ןʾetnannoun · masculine singulartagged: hire of a prostitute
Hosea
one use
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
- אֶתְנָ֔ןʾetnannoun · masculine singulartagged: hire of a prostitute
Micah
three uses
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
- אֶתְנַנֶּ֙יהָ֙ʾetnaneihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: hires its
- מֵאֶתְנַ֤ןmeetnanpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from hire of
- אֶתְנַ֥ןʾetnannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hire of
The letters
Gematria 501· 1,151 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 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.