Son-in-law
חָתָןStrong’s H2860chatan (cha-tan)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatan is the Hebrew word usually translated “bridegroom”, “son-in-law” and “sons-in-law his”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:”
Meaning
- Son-in-law, daughter's husband, bridegroom, husband
How it's translated
- a bridegroom 5
- a son-in-law 4
- sons-in-law his 2
- a bridegroom of 2
- son-in-law of 2
- son-in-law his 1
- and son-in-law of 1
- like a bridegroom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 4
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 2
- Judges 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Nehemiah 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
- Exodus 4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
- Exodus 4:26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
- Judges 15:6Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- Judges 19:5And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel’s father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.
- 1 Samuel 18:18And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
Hebrew dictionary
חָתָן chatan · son-in-law
son-in-law, daughter's husband, bridegroom, husband
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “soninlaw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SON-IN-LAW, noun
A man married to one's daughter.
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.