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# יׇקְשָׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3370

**Jokshan** — used 4 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

Jokshan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3370/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָקְשָׁן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3370/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Abraham and Keturah Gn 25:2, 3 = 1 Ch 1:32(×2); 𝔊 Ιεξαν; 𝔊L Gn 25:2, 3 Ιεκταν.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jokshan (3); of Jokshan (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.3/#tree)

וְיָקְשָׁ֣ן יָלַ֔ד אֶת־שְׁבָ֖א וְאֶת־דְּדָ֑ן וּבְנֵ֣י דְדָ֔ן הָי֛וּ אַשּׁוּרִ֥ם וּלְטוּשִׁ֖ים וּלְאֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Jokshan he.fathered (et) Sheba and (et) Dedan and the.sons of.Dedan they.were Asshurites and Letushites and Leummites

*JPS 1917:* And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

[Genesis 25:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.2/#tree)

וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֗וֹ אֶת־זִמְרָן֙ וְאֶת־יָקְשָׁ֔ן וְאֶת־מְדָ֖ן וְאֶת־מִדְיָ֑ן וְאֶת־יִשְׁבָּ֖ק וְאֶת־שֽׁוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore to him (et) Zimran and (et) Jokshan and (et) Medan and (et) Midian and (et) Ishbak and (et) Shuah

*JPS 1917:* And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3370.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3370/): 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).