אֶתְנַן
ʼethnan · eth-nan'
a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H866 (אֶתְנָה);
a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hire, reward.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- 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
- 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)
strength, the leader › the mark, the covenant sign › the seed, life continuing › the seed, life continuing
Strength, the leader of the mark, the covenant sign of the seed, life continuing of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֶתְנַן 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
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a reward2 · 18%
- the hire1 · 9%
- to her hire1 · 9%
- and her hire1 · 9%
- hire1 · 9%
- and no reward1 · 9%
- no hire1 · 9%
- and all the hires1 · 9%
- it of the hire1 · 9%
- to the hire1 · 9%
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.