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חַטּוּשׁ

Hattush

BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Hattush’ fuller range ↓

H2407 Strong's Hebrew
Chaṭṭûwsh Transliteration
/khat-toosh'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 5 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“Hattush” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name חטוש (Chaṭṭûwsh). With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than half of its appearances fall in Nehemiah. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Chronicles 3:22. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Hattush
Modern gloss
Hattush
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H2407 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

5
distinct verses
The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
3 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
1 Chronicles 3:22
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in 1 Chronicles 3:22.
Nehemiah 12:2
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Nehemiah 12:2.
#3,337
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 5 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Hattush 5×
  • American Standard Version: Hattush 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Hattush 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hattush 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H2407 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hattush” 5×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H2407 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hattush” 5×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H2407 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hattush” 5×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H2407 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hattush” 5×

Senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

  • 1. man of Davidic line, post-exil., 1 Ch 3:22 𝔊 Χαττους 𝔊L Ατους, Ezr 8:2 𝔊 Τους, A𝔊L Αττους. e.g. 1 Chronicles 3:22
  • 2. a builder at the wall of Jerus. Ne 3:10, 𝔊 Ατουθ, 𝔊L Αττους. e.g. Nehemiah 3:10
  • 3. head of a priestly house, post-exil., Ne 10:5 𝔊 Τους, 𝔊L Αττους, 12:2 𝔊L Αττους (B om.); relation to 2 dubious.cf. Nab. חטישו, Cooke 245. e.g. Nehemiah 10:5

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

Origin: from an unused root of uncertain signification

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms H2407 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
חַטּֽוּשׁ Noun, Proper Ezra 8:2 2
חַטּ֖וּשׁ Noun, Proper Nehemiah 3:10 1
חַטּ֡וּשׁ Noun, Proper 1 Chronicles 3:22 1
חַטּ֥וּשׁ Noun, Proper Nehemiah 10:4 1

Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hattush). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Assembled. (1.) A priest who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:2). (2.) Ezra 8:2. (3.) Neh. 3:10. (4.) Neh. 10:4. (5.) 1 Chr. 3:22.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

forsaking sin

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.

Reading settings

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