natan · Nathan

What it means

natan (נָתָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nathan”.

The name of several men; the best known are a son of David born in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 5:14) and the prophet who spoke to David (2 Samuel 7; 12). It means "he has given."

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.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×13
• 1 Kings×13
• 1 Chronicles×10
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×2
• Psalms×1
• Zechariah×1

• 2 Samuel 5:14

  These are the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

• 2 Samuel 7:2

  that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See, please: I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of Elohim remains inside the curtain.”

• 2 Samuel 7:3

  Nathan said to the king, “All that is in your heart, go, do it, for YHWH is with you.”

• 2 Samuel 7:4

  And it happened that night that the word of YHWH came to Nathan, saying,

• 2 Samuel 7:17

  In accordance with all these words and in accordance with all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

• 2 Samuel 12:1

  YHWH sent Nathan to David; he came to him and said to him, “There were two men in one city, one rich and one poor.

• 2 Samuel 12:5

  David’s anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As YHWH lives, the man who has done this deserves to die.

• 2 Samuel 12:7

  Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says YHWH, Elohim of Israel: ‘I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

• 2 Samuel 12:13

  David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against YHWH.” Nathan said to David, “YHWH also has caused your sin to pass; you shall not die.

• 2 Samuel 12:15

  Then Nathan went to his house. And YHWH struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and he became very ill.

• 2 Samuel 12:25

  and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedidiah, for the sake of YHWH.

• 2 Samuel 23:36

  Igal son of Nathan from Zobah; Bani the Gadite;

• 1 Kings 1:8

  But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David were not with Adonijah.

• 1 Kings 1:10

  But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother he did not invite.

• 1 Kings 1:11

  Then Nathan said to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith reigns, and our lord David does not know it?

• 1 Kings 1:22

  She was still speaking with the king when Nathan the prophet came in.

• 1 Kings 1:23

  And they told the king, saying, “Look, Nathan the prophet is here.” And he came in before the king and bowed down to the king with his face to the ground.

• 1 Kings 1:24

  And Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?

• 1 Kings 1:32

  And King David said, “Call Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada to me.” And they came before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:34

  And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel; and blow the horn and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

• 1 Kings 1:38

  So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and set Solomon on the mule of King David, and brought him to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:44

  The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

• 1 Kings 1:45

  And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound that you heard.

• 1 Kings 4:5

  and Azariah son of Nathan was over the prefects; and Zabud son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s companion;

• 1 Chronicles 2:36

  And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.

• 1 Chronicles 3:5

  And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, by Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;

• 1 Chronicles 11:38

  Joel brother of Nathan; Mibhar son of Hagri;

• 1 Chronicles 14:4

  These are the names of those born whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

• 1 Chronicles 17:1

  And it happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I live in the house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of YHWH is under curtains.”

• 1 Chronicles 17:2

  Nathan said to David, “All that is in your heart, do it, for Elohim is with you.”

• 1 Chronicles 17:3

  And it happened that night that the word of Elohim came to Nathan, saying,

• 1 Chronicles 17:15

  In accordance with all these words and in accordance with all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

• 1 Chronicles 29:29

  The acts of David the king, the first and the last, are written in the words of Samuel the seer, and in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Gad the seer,

• 2 Chronicles 9:29

  The rest of the deeds of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

• 2 Chronicles 29:25

  He set the Levites in the house of YHWH with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the seer of the king and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was by the hand of YHWH through his prophets.

• Ezra 8:16

  And I sent for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, heads, and for Joiarib and for Elnathan, discerning men;

• Ezra 10:39

  and Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah,

• Psalms 51:1

  For the director. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Show me favor, Elohim, according to your loyal love; according to the abundance of your mercies blot out my transgressions.

• Zechariah 12:12

  And the land will lament, family by family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

And 3 more times.