Strong's H2859: חָתַן (châthan) Definition
- Strong's number
- H2859
- Lemma
- חָתַן
- Transliteration
- châthan
- Pronunciation
- khaw-than'
- Strong's definition
- to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law. a primitive root;
Exodus 18:17 - said father in law And Moses is not good unto him The thing that thou doest
Exodus 18:24 - hearkened So Moses to the voice of his father in law and did all that he had said
Exodus 18:27 - depart And Moses let his father in law and he went his way into his own land
Ezra 9:14 - Should we again break thy commandments and join in affinity with the people of these abominations wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping
Genesis 34:9 - And make ye marriages our daughters with us and give our daughters unto us and take
Joshua 23:12 - Else if ye do in any wise Else if ye do in any wise and cleave unto the remnant of these nations even these that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in
Judges 1:16 - And the children of the Kenite father in law Moses went up out of the city of palm trees among And the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah which lieth in the south of Arad and dwelt among the people
Judges 4:11 - Now Heber himself from the Kenites had severed himself from the Kenites which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim which is by Kedesh
Judges 19:4 - retained And his father in law father the damsel's him and he abode with him three days so they did eat and drink and lodged
Judges 19:7 - rose up And when the man urged his father in law there again him therefore he lodged
Judges 19:9 - rose up And when the man that thou mayest go he and his concubine and his servant said his father in law father the damsel's draweth behold the day toward evening I pray you tarry all night groweth to an end behold the day I pray you tarry all night may be merry here that thine heart get you early and to morrow on your way that thou mayest go home
Numbers 10:29 - said And Moses unto Hobab the son of Raguel the Midianite father in law And Moses We are journeying unto the place said for the LORD I will give for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel