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Strong's H2859 · Hebrew

chathan

khaw-than'

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


Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H2859a

H2859a חֹתֵן n. verb . . m . wife's father . f . wife's mother H2859b חתן vb. denom . only Hithp . make oneself a daughter's husband

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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