TBESH · H2859A
חֹתֵן · cho.ten · relative
a son-in-law, a daughter's husband, wife's father, wife's mother, father-in-law, mother-in- law
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cho.ten H2859
חֹתֵן (cho.ten) means “relative” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חֹתֵן Hebrew · H2859 33 tagged occurrences in 32 verses
Pronunciation guide: khaw-than' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H2859B
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
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage
KJV glosses: join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law.
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How translators render H2859
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| father-in-law | 8 |
| his father-in-law | 4 |
| son-in-law | 3 |
| to his father-in-law | 2 |
| and if you intermarry | 1 |
| and intermarry | 1 |
| but his father-in-law | 1 |
| by marriage | 1 |
| formed an alliance | 1 |
| his father-in-law on his way | 1 |
| his mother-in-law | 1 |
| intermarry | 1 |
| intermarry with us | 1 |
| moses father-in-law | 1 |
| of his father-in-law | 1 |
| the father-in-law | 1 |
| to be the son-in-law | 1 |
| you can be my son-in-law | 1 |
| your father-in-law | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| father in law | 9 |
| his father in law | 6 |
| son in law | 4 |
| among you and shall make marriages | 1 |
| and his father in law | 1 |
| and join in affinity | 1 |
| and joined affinity | 1 |
| and make ye marriages | 1 |
| be my son in law | 1 |
| i thy father in law | 1 |
| let his father in law | 1 |
| made affinity | 1 |
| neither shalt thou make marriages | 1 |
| of his father in law | 1 |
| the father in law | 1 |
| unto his father in law | 1 |
| with his mother in law | 1 |
Verses containing H2859
Page 1 of 1. 32 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 34:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.
Read word by word - Exodus 3:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Read word by word - Exodus 4:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
Read word by word - Exodus 18:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
Read word by word - Exodus 18:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
Read word by word - Exodus 18:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.
Read word by word - Numbers 10:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 7:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 27:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read word by word - Joshua 23:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
Read word by word - Judges 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
Read word by word - Judges 4:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
Read word by word - Judges 19:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.
Read word by word - Judges 19:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
Read word by word - Judges 19:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 18:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 18:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Jehoshaphat had an abundance of riches and honor, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.
Read word by word - Ezra 9:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?
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