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# אֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H204

**On** — used 3 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

On [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/204/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹן: n.pr.loc. On [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/204/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Gn 41:45; 46:20) אוֹן (Gn 41:50 Ez 30:17) n.pr.loc. On (Egypt. Ȧn cf. EbGS 75 WiedSamml 46; perhaps = Assyrian Unu, SteindorffBAS i. 610, contr. DlPa 318) city in lower Egypt, prob. on border of land of Goshen, residence of ‘Potiphera, priest of On,’ father-in-law of Joseph Gn 41:45, 50; 46:20; also Ez 30:17 (where MT אָוֶן); it was celebrated for worship of sun-god Ra, & hence called also sun-city, בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ Je 43:13, 𝔊 Ἡλίου πόλις; mod. Matariye, on E. bank of Nile, c. 7 miles E. of N. from Cairo & 18 from Memphis;—cf. EbGS 75, 507 f. & map Wiedl.c.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of On (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 41:50](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.50/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.50/#tree)

וּלְיוֹסֵ֤ף יֻלַּד֙ שְׁנֵ֣י בָנִ֔ים בְּטֶ֥רֶם תָּב֖וֹא שְׁנַ֣ת הָרָעָ֑ב אֲשֶׁ֤ר יָֽלְדָה־לּוֹ֙ אָֽסְנַ֔ת בַּת־פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע כֹּהֵ֥ן אֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and to Joseph it.was.born two sons before it.came the.year of.(the) famine whom she.bore to him Asenath the.daughter of Potiphera the.priest of.On

*JPS 1917:* And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him.

[Genesis 46:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.20/#tree)

וַיִּוָּלֵ֣ד לְיוֹסֵף֮ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יָֽלְדָה־לּוֹ֙ אָֽסְנַ֔ת בַּת־פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע כֹּהֵ֣ן אֹ֑ן אֶת־מְנַשֶּׁ֖ה וְאֶת־אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.born to Joseph in the.land of.Egypt \[those\].whom she.bore to him Asenath the.daughter of Potiphera the.priest of.On (et) Manasseh and (et) Ephraim

*JPS 1917:* And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/204.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/204/): 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).