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HebrewH5416Proper Noun (Masculine)

נָתָן

na.tan

38Occurrences
H5416Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Nathan, the name of five Israelites

from H5414 (נָתַן); given;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: David (H1732) and Bathsheba (H1339); brother of: Shammua (H8051H), Shobab (H7727) and Solomon (H8010); half-brother of: Amnon (H0550), Chileab (H3609), Absalom (H0053), Adonijah (H0138), Shephatiah (H8203), Ithream (H3507), Ibhar (H2984), Elishua (H0474), Nepheg (H5298H), Japhia (H3309I), Elishama (H0476H), Eliada (H0450), Eliphelet (H0467), Tamar (H8559H), Elpelet (H0467I), Nogah (H5052) and Jerimoth (H3406N); father of: Mattatha (G3160) Also named: Nathan (*Ναθάν *"Nathan" G3481) § Nathan = "giver" 1) a son of David by Bathsheba 2) the eminent prophet in the time of David and Solomon 3) a man of Zobah, father of one of David's mighty warriors 4) father of Azariah who was over the officers of Solomon 5) son of Attai and father of Zabad of the tribe of ) brother of Joel of the tribe of ) one of the head men who returned from Babylon with ) a man with a foreign wife in the time of ) head of a family of Israel who shall mourn when they look on Him whom they pierced

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

נָתָן appears 38 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Kings
12
2 Samuel
12
1 Chronicles
9
2 Chronicles
2
Ezra
2
Zechariah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 11:38BSB

Joel the brother of Nathan,Mibhar son of Hagri,

1 Chronicles 29:29BSB

Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer,

1 Kings 1:24BSB

“My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ‘Adonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne’?

2 Chronicles 29:25BSB

Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command had come from the LORD through His prophets.

2 Samuel 12:25BSB

and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.