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# חֲתֻנָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2861

**marriage** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

marriage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2861/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲתֻנָּה: n.f. marriage, wedding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2861/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. marriage, wedding (NH חִיתּוּן id.; Aramaic חִיתּוּנָא id.; Arabic خُتُونَةٌ marriage-alliance, marriage)—only בְּיוֹם חֲתֻנָּתו Ct 3:11 on the day of his marriage.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his wedding (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 3:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.11/#tree)

צְאֶ֧ינָה ׀ וּֽרְאֶ֛ינָה בְּנ֥וֹת צִיּ֖וֹן בַּמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בָּעֲטָרָ֗ה שֶׁעִטְּרָה־לּ֤וֹ אִמּוֹ֙ בְּי֣וֹם חֲתֻנָּת֔וֹ וּבְי֖וֹם שִׂמְחַ֥ת לִבּֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* come.out and look O.daughters of.Zion on the king Solomon on the crown which she.crowned (to) him mother his on the.day his.wedding his and on the.day of.the.rejoicing his.heart his

*JPS 1917:* Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2861.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2861/): 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).