Relative
חֹתֵןStrong’s H2859choten (cho-ten)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choten is the Hebrew word usually translated “father-in-law of”, “father-in-law his” and “son-in-law”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.”
Meaning
- A son-in-law, a daughter's husband, wife's father, wife's mother, father-in-law, mother-in- law
- To become a son-in-law, make oneself a daughter's husband(Qal) wife's father, wife's mother, father-in-law, mother-in- law (participle) · (Hithpael) to make oneself a daughter's husband
How it's translated
- father-in-law of 10
- father-in-law his 8
- to be son-in-law 3
- to father-in-law his 2
- and he became son-in-law 2
- and intermarry with 1
- father-in-law your 1
- you will intermarry 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 14
- Judges 5
- 1 Samuel 5
- Deuteronomy 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 3:1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
- Exodus 4:18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
- Exodus 18:1When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
- Exodus 18:2Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
- Exodus 18:5And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
- Exodus 18:6And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹתֵן choten · relative
a son-in-law, a daughter's husband, wife's father, wife's mother, father-in-law, mother-in- law
חָתַן chatan · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “relative” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REL'ATIVE, adjective
[Latin relativus.]
- Having relation; respecting.
- Not absolute or existing by itself; considered as belonging to or respecting something else.
- Incident to man in society; as relative rights and duties.
- Particular; positive. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “relative”
REL'ATIVE, noun
- A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
- That which has relation to something else.
- In grammar, a word which relates to or represents another word, called its antecedent, or to a sentence or member of a sentence, or to a series of sentences, which constitutes its antecedent. 'He seldom lives frugally, who lives by chance.' Here who is the relative which represents he, the antecedent.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.