Cohabitation
עֹנָהStrong’s H5772onah (o-nah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Onah is the Hebrew word usually translated “right to intercourse her”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.”
Meaning
- Cohabitation, conjugal rights
How it's translated
- and right to intercourse her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֹנָה onah · cohabitation
cohabitation, conjugal rights
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cohabitation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COHABITATION, noun
- The act or state of dwelling together or in the same place with another.
- The state of living together as man and wife, without being legally married.
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.