נָתָן
Nâthân · naw-thawn'
Nathan, the name of five Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5414 (נָתַן); given;
Nathan, the name of five Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Nathan.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- 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)
the seed, life continuing › the mark, the covenant sign › the seed, life continuing
The seed, life continuing of the mark, the covenant sign of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָתָן 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
42 occurrences · 42 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and nathan16 · 38%
- of nathan8 · 19%
- nathan4 · 10%
- unto nathan2 · 5%
- so did nathan2 · 5%
- to nathan2 · 5%
- came unto nathan1 · 2%
- but nathan1 · 2%
- wherefore nathan1 · 2%
- behold nathan1 · 2%
- then nathan1 · 2%
- came to nathan1 · 2%
- and for nathan1 · 2%
- when nathan1 · 2%
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.