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# נָתָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5416

**Nathan** — used 42 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

Nathan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5416/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָתָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5416/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 𝔊 Ναθαν;— a son of David 2 S 5:14 = 1 Ch 3:15, 1 Ch 14:4. the prophet of David’s time 2 S 7:2, 3, 4, 17 = 1 Ch 17:1, 2, 3, 15; 2 S 12:1 + 6 times 2 S 12; 1 K 1:8 + 10 times 1 K 1, 2 Ch 29:25 ψ 51:2 (title); דִּבְרֵי נָתָן הַנָּבִיא as name of a book 1 Ch 29:29 2 Ch 9:29. father of one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:36. father of officers of Solomon, 1 K 4:5(×2) (= 2?). name in Judah: 1 Ch 2:36(×2). 11:38. companion of Ezra from Babylon Ezr 8:16. one of those who took strange wives 10:39. head of a family Zc 12:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 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: Nathan (34); of Nathan (8).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.38/#tree)

יוֹאֵל֙ אֲחִ֣י נָתָ֔ן מִבְחָ֖ר בֶּן־הַגְרִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Joel the.brother of.Nathan Mibhar the.son of.Hagri

*JPS 1917:* Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri;

[Ezra 10:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.39/#tree)

וְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֥ה וְנָתָ֖ן וַעֲדָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah

*JPS 1917:* Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5416.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5416/): 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).