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H2859 חָתַן (châthan) khaw-than'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage

KJV Usage: join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חֹתֵן (cho.ten) — relative. a son-in-law, a daughter's husband, wife's father, wife's mother, father-in-law, mother-in- law

חָתַן (cha.tan) — be related. 1) to become a son-in-law, make oneself a daughter's husband 1a) (Qal) wife's father, wife's mother, father-in-law, mother-in- law (participle) 1b) (Hithpael) to make oneself a daughter's husband

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · חָתָן · חֲתֻנָּה

Associate | verb hit

to intermarry, to make a marriage alliance = action by which humans contract affinity by intermarriage with another person or community

GEN 34:9 · DEU 7:3 · JOS 23:12 · 1SA 18:21 · 1SA 18:22 · 1SA 18:23 · 1SA 18:26 · 1SA 18:27 · 1KI 3:1 · 2CH 18:1 · EZR 9:14

Relatives | verb qal

father-in-law = father of one's spouse

EXO 3:1 · EXO 4:18 · EXO 18:1 · EXO 18:2 · EXO 18:5 · EXO 18:6 · EXO 18:7 · EXO 18:8 · EXO 18:12 · EXO 18:12 · EXO 18:14 · EXO 18:15 · EXO 18:17 · EXO 18:24 · EXO 18:27 · NUM 10:29 · DEU 27:23 · JDG 1:16 · JDG 4:11 · JDG 19:4 · JDG 19:7 · JDG 19:9

Relatives | verb qal

mother-in-law = mother of one's spouse

DEU 27:23

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֹתֵן n.verb. m. wife's father

f. wife's mother

base

חתן vb. denom. only Hithp. make oneself a daughter's husband base

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