1. חָתָן
daughter's husband, bridegroom
The corpus record — Hebrew
חָתָן֙
chathan · n.m
daughter's husband, bridegroom
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 20 · 0.65/10k
Senses
2. חָתָן
a relative by marriage (especially through the bride); figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal)
3. חתן
to become related by marriage
Attestations
- חָתָן֙ Genesis 19:12 (BHS)
- חֲתָנָ֣י/ו Genesis 19:14 (BHS)
- חֲתָנָֽי/ו Genesis 19:14 (BHS)
- חֲתַן Exodus 4:25 (BHS)
- חֲתַ֥ן Exodus 4:26 (BHS)
- חֲתַ֣ן Judges 15:6 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.