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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָקִטָן: n.pr.m. tree →

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 · 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 · 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

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: 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).

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