chatan · son-in-law

What it means

chatan (חָתָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “son-in-law”.

A relative by marriage: son-in-law, bridegroom or father-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. The daughter's husband, who joins the family by marriage.
2. The man who is marrying or newly married.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bridegroom ×10
• son-in-law ×8
• sons-in-law ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×2
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×4
• Joel×1

• Genesis 19:12

  Then the men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place,

• Genesis 19:14

  So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for YHWH is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to be joking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

• Exodus 4:25

  Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to his feet and said, “Surely a bridegroom of blood you are to me!”

• Exodus 4:26

  So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

• Judges 15:6

  And the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

• Judges 19:5

  And it happened on the fourth day that they rose early in the morning, and he arose to go; but the father of the young woman said to his son-in-law, “Sustain your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you may go.”

• 1 Samuel 18:18

  David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who is my life, the family of my father in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”

• 1 Samuel 22:14

  Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is like David, faithful, and the king’s son-in-law, who comes at your orders, and honored in your house?

• 2 Kings 8:27

  He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, as the house of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

• Nehemiah 6:18

  For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was son-in-law to Shecaniah son of Arah, and Jehohanan his son had taken the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

• Nehemiah 13:28

  And one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; so I chased him away from me.

• Psalms 19:5

  and it is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; it rejoices like a mighty man to run the path.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in YHWH; my soul will exult in my Elohim, for he has clothed me with garments of salvation; with the robe of righteousness he has wrapped me, as a bridegroom puts on the headdress like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Isaiah 62:5

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as the rejoicing of a bridegroom over a bride, so your Elohim will rejoice over you.

• Jeremiah 7:34

  And I will make cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

• Jeremiah 16:9

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am making cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

• Jeremiah 25:10

  And I will make perish from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

• Jeremiah 33:11

  the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to YHWH Tsevaot, for YHWH is good, for his loyal love is forever,’ as they bring thanksgiving to the house of YHWH; for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, says YHWH.

• Joel 2:16

  Gather the people, consecrate the assembly, bring together the elders, gather the children and those nursing at the breasts; let the bridegroom go out from his room, and the bride from her canopy.

And 1 more times.