H2860 - חָתָן (châthân)

H2860 חָתָן (châthân) khaw-thawn'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

son-in-law

Strong's Definition

a relative by marriage (especially through the bride); figuratively, a circumcised child (as a species of religious espousal)

Derivation: from H2859 (חָתַן);

KJV Usage: bridegroom, husband, son in law.

TWOT Reference: 781c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) son-in-law, daughter's husband, bridegroom, husband

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G79 G1135 G3566

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

son-in-law, daughter's husband, bridegroom, husband

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חָתָן châthân BDB Definition: 1) son-in-law, daughters husband, bridegroom, husband Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H2859 Same Word by TWOT Number: 781c Total KJV Occurrences: 24

Bible Occurrences (19)

19:12 19:14

4:25 4:26

15:6 19:5

18:18 22:14

8:27

6:18 13:28

19:5

61:10 62:5

7:34 16:9 25:10 33:11

2:16

Genesis 19:12

Then the [two] men said to Lot, Do you have anyone else here — a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. Get up, he said. Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city! But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to [Moses’] feet. Surely you [are] a bridegroom of blood to me, she said.

Exodus 4:26

So [the LORD] let him alone.... When she said, bridegroom of blood, she was referring to the circumcision.

Judges 15:6

Who did this? the Philistines demanded. It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, they were told. For his wife was given to his companion. So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

Judges 19:5

On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.

1 Samuel 18:18

And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

1 Samuel 22:14

Ahimelech answered the king..., Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard and honored in your house?