Marriage
חֲתֻנָּהStrong’s H2861chatunnah (cha-tun-nah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chatunnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wedding his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.”
Meaning
- Wedding, marriage
How it's translated
- wedding his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֲתֻנָּה chatunnah · marriage
wedding, marriage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “marriage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAR'RIAGE, noun
[Latin mas, maris.]
The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity, and for securing the maintenance and education of children.
- A feast made on the occasion of a marriage“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage for his son” Matthew 22:2
- In a scriptural sense, the union between Christ and his church by the covenant of grace. Revelation 19:7
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.