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# לוֹטָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3877

**Lotan** — used 7 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

Lotan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3877/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוֹטָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3877/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 𝔊 Λωταν; a son of שֵׂעִיר Gn 36:20, 22 = 1 Ch 1:38, 39, and father of חֹרִי etc. Gn 36:22 = 1 Ch 1:39; called a chief (אַלּוּף) of הַחֹרִי Gn 36:29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Lotan (4); Lotan (2); \[were\] Lotan (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.39/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י לוֹטָ֖ן חֹרִ֣י וְהוֹמָ֑ם וַאֲח֥וֹת לוֹטָ֖ן תִּמְנָֽע׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Lotan \[were\].Hori and Homam and.\[was\] the.sister of.Lotan Timna

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

[Genesis 36:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.22/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵי־לוֹטָ֖ן חֹרִ֣י וְהֵימָ֑ם וַאֲח֥וֹת לוֹטָ֖ן תִּמְנָֽע׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.sons of.Lotan Hori and Hemam and.\[was\] the.sister of.Lotan Timna

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3877.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3877/): 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).