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# יׇקְטָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3355

**Joktan** — used 6 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

Joktan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3355/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָקִטָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3355/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Eber, descendant of Shem (DHM in MV comp. his name in Arabic tradition, viz. Ḳaḥtân; the √ √ قحط and وقط being both expl. in Muḥîṭ by ضرب strike, beat; v. Lane1777 ff.)—Gn 10:25, 26, 29 = 1 Ch 1:19, 20, 23, ‘father’ of various tribes of Yemen; 𝔊 Ιεκταν.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Joktan (2); \[was\] Joktan (2); of Joktan (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.29/#tree)

וְאֶת־אוֹפִ֥ר וְאֶת־חֲוִילָ֖ה וְאֶת־יוֹבָ֑ב כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י יָקְטָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Ophir and (et) Havilah and (et) Jobab all these \[were\].the.sons of.Joktan

*JPS 1917:* and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

[1 Chronicles 1:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.23/#tree)

וְאֶת־אוֹפִ֥יר וְאֶת־חֲוִילָ֖ה וְאֶת־יוֹבָ֑ב כָּל־אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י יָקְטָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* and (et) Ophir and (et) Havilah and (et) Jobab all these \[were\].the.sons of.Joktan

*JPS 1917:* and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3355.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3355/): 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).