chatan · intermarry

What it means

chatan (חָתַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “intermarry”.

Become related through marriage; intermarry, become a son-in-law.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To become another's family by means of a marriage.
2. The parents of the wife or the husband, that is, the in-laws.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• father-in-law ×21
• become son-in-law ×5
• intermarry ×4
• he allied himself by marriage ×1
• made a marriage alliance ×1
• mother-in-law ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×15
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×5
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1

• Genesis 34:9

  Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

• Exodus 3:1

  Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock beyond the wilderness and came to the mountain of Elohim, to Horeb.

• Exodus 4:18

  Moses went and returned to Jether his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

• Exodus 18:1

  Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that Elohim had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how YHWH had brought Israel out of Egypt.

• Exodus 18:2

  Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,

• Exodus 18:5

  Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mountain of Elohim.

• Exodus 18:6

  He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, with your wife and her two sons with her.”

• Exodus 18:7

  Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him; they asked each other about their welfare, and they went into the tent.

• Exodus 18:8

  Moses told his father-in-law all that YHWH had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how YHWH had delivered them.

• Exodus 18:12

  Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for Elohim; and Aaron came, with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before Elohim.

• Exodus 18:14

  When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

• Exodus 18:15

  Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of Elohim.

• Exodus 18:17

  Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.

• Exodus 18:24

  Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

• Exodus 18:27

  Then Moses let his father-in-law go, and he went his way to his own land.

• Numbers 10:29

  And Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which YHWH said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do you good, for YHWH has spoken good concerning Israel.”

• Deuteronomy 7:3

  You shall not intermarry with them: your daughter you shall not give to his son, and his daughter you shall not take for your son,

• Deuteronomy 27:23

  ‘Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Joshua 23:12

  For if you do indeed turn back and cling to the rest of these nations, those that remain with you, and intermarry with them, and go in among them, and they among you,

• Judges 1:16

  The sons of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the City of Palms with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negev of Arad; and he went and lived with the people.

• Judges 4:11

  Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

• Judges 19:4

  And his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, detained him, and he stayed with him three days; and they ate and drank and spent the night there.

• Judges 19:7

  And the man arose to go, but his father-in-law pressed him, and he turned back and spent the night there.

• Judges 19:9

  And the man arose to go, he and his concubine and his young man; but his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, said to him, “Look, please, the day has waned toward evening; spend the night, please. Look, the day is ending; spend the night here, and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you can rise early for your journey and go to your tent.”

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  Saul said, “I will give her to him, and she will be for him a trap, and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” And Saul said to David, “For a second time you will become son-in-law to me today.”

• 1 Samuel 18:22

  Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in secret, saying, ‘Look, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; and now, become son-in-law to the king.’”

• 1 Samuel 18:23

  The servants of Saul spoke in the ears of David these words, and David said, “Is it a light thing in your eyes to become son-in-law to the king, when I am a poor and despised man?”

• 1 Samuel 18:26

  His servants told David these words, and the thing was right in the eyes of David to become son-in-law to the king. And the days had not yet been fulfilled,

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  when David arose and went, he and his men, and struck among the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they counted them out in full to the king, to become son-in-law to the king. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

• 1 Kings 3:1

  And Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he took the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his house and the house of YHWH and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

• 2 Chronicles 18:1

  Jehoshaphat had riches and glory in abundance, and he allied himself by marriage with Ahab.

• Ezra 9:14

  shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples of these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you made an end of us, so that there is no remnant or escapees?

And 1 more times.