Dathan
דָּתָןStrong’s H1885datan (da-tan)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Datan is the Hebrew word usually translated “dathan”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Reuben living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.16.1
How it's translated
- dathan 6
- and dathan 3
- to dathan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 6
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 16:12And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
- Numbers 16:24Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
- Numbers 16:25And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
- Numbers 16:27So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
- Numbers 26:9And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
- Deuteronomy 11:6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
Hebrew dictionary
דָּתָן datan · Dathan
A man of the tribe of Reuben living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.16.1; son of: Eliab (H0446H); brother of: Abiram (H0048) and Nemuel (H5241) § Dathan = "belonging to a fountain" a Reubenite chief, son of Eliab, who, with his brother, Abiram, joined Korah's conspiracy against Moses' authority
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.