Onan
אוֹנָןStrong’s H0209onan (o-nan)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Onan is the Hebrew word usually translated “onan”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.38.4
How it's translated
- and onan 5
- onan 2
- to onan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:8And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
- Genesis 38:9And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
- Genesis 46:12And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 26:19The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
- 1 Chronicles 2:3The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
Hebrew dictionary
אוֹנָן onan · Onan
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.38.4; son of: Judah (H3063) and Bath-shua (H1323I) ; brother of: Er (H6147) and Shelah (H7956); half-brother of: Perez (H6557) and Zerah (H2226I) § Onan = "strong" second son of Judah, slain by God for not fulfilling the levitical requirement to beget a child with the wife of a dead, childless brother
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.