חָתָן
châthân · khaw-thawn'
a relative by marriage (especially through the bride); figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2859 (חָתַן);
a relative by marriage (especially through the bride); figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal)
- a relative by marriage (especially through the bride)
- figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bridegroom, husband, son in law.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the mark, the covenant sign › the seed, life continuing
To separate and protect of the mark, the covenant sign of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָתָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
20 occurrences · 20 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the bridegroom4 · 20%
- husband2 · 10%
- besides? son in law1 · 5%
- unto his sons in law1 · 5%
- his sons in law1 · 5%
- the son in law1 · 5%
- unto his son in law1 · 5%
- that i should be son in law1 · 5%
- son in law1 · 5%
- for he was the son in law1 · 5%
- unto him, because he was the son in law1 · 5%
- was son in law1 · 5%
- which is as a bridegroom1 · 5%
- as a bridegroom1 · 5%
- thee: and as the bridegroom1 · 5%
- let the bridegroom1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.