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# אוֹנָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H209

**Onan** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Onan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/209/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוֹנָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/209/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (vigorous) son of Judah Gn 38:4, 8, 9; 46:12(×2); Nu 26:19(×2); 1 Ch 2:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Onan (8).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.4/#tree)

וַתַּ֥הַר ע֖וֹד וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֑ן וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ אוֹנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and she.conceived again and she.bore a.son and she.called (et) name his Onan

*JPS 1917:* And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan.

[Numbers 26:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.19/#tree)

בְּנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה עֵ֣ר וְאוֹנָ֑ן וַיָּ֥מָת עֵ֛ר וְאוֹנָ֖ן בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Judah \[were\].Er and Onan and he.died Er and Onan in the.land of.Canaan

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/209/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).