King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2859
Transliteration: chathan
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-than')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: make oneself a daughter's husband
Meaning: to give, away in marriage, to contract affinity by marriage
Word Summary
chathan: make oneself a daughter's husband
Original Word: חָתַןTransliteration: chathan
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-than')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: make oneself a daughter's husband
Meaning: to give, away in marriage, to contract affinity by marriage
Strong's Concordance
join in affinity, father-in-law, make marriages, mother-in-law, son-in-law A primitive root; 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2859. chathan
חֹתֵן verbal noun 1. masculine wife's father (Arabic a circumciser, hence father-in-law, with reference to circumcision performed on young men just before marriage; relation on wife's side; see WeProl. 1886, 355 Anm, 1; Skizzen iii, 154 StaZAW 1886. 143 Aum. NöZMG 1886, 187; otherwise DlPr 91 LagBN 116) — construct חֹתֵן Exodus 18:1 + 9t., חֹתֶנְךָ 18:6, חֹתְנוֺ 3:1+ 9 t.; — usually of Moses' wife's father 3:1; 4:18; 18:1-2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 (twice in verse); 18:14; 18:15; 18:17; 18:24; 18:27 (all E), Numbers 10:29 (J), Judges 1:16; 4:11; of a Levite 19:4, 7, 9.
2. feminine wife's mother, only suffix חֹתַנְתּוֺ Deuteronomy 27:23.
II. חתן verb denominative only
Hithpa`el make oneself a daughter's husband (Late Hebrew Hithpa`el id., Aramaic Ithpa`al id.) — Perfect2masculine plural וְהִתְחַתַּנְתֶּם consecutive Joshua 23:12; Imperfect וַיִּתְחַתֵּן 1 Kings 3:1; 2 Chronicles 18:1-2; masculine תִּתְחַתֵּן Deuteronomy 7:3; 1 Samuel 18:21; Imperative הִתְחַתֵּן 18:22, הִתְחַתְּנוּ Genesis 34:9; Infinitive הִתְחַתֵּן 1 Samuel 18:23 3t.; —
1 make oneself daughter's husband (son-in-law) to, with בְּ 1 Samuel 18:21-22, 23, 26, 27; with אֶת 1 Kings 3:1; Genesis 34:9 (P); with לְ2 Chronicles 18:1, of marriage of Jehoshaphat's son and Ahab's daughter (compare 2 Kings 8:18 2 Chronicles 21:6).
2 in General form marriage-alliance with, with בְּ Deuteronomy 7:3; Joshua 23:12 (D), Ezra 9:14.