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יִתְנָ֑ן

Ithnan

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ithnan’ fuller range ↓

H3497 Strong's Hebrew
Yithnân Transliteration
/yith-nawn'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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About this entry

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יתנן — transliterated Yithnân — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Ithnan.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Joshua (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Joshua 15:23. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

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

Strong's H3497 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Joshua 15:23
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Joshua 15:23.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 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 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 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: Ithnan 1×
  • American Standard Version: Ithnan 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Ithnan 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ithnan 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H3497 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Ithnan” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H3497 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Ithnan” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H3497 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Ithnan” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H3497 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Ithnan” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Ithnan = "hire"
  2. one of the towns in the extreme south of Judah; site unknown

Word origin

יִתְנָ֑ן n.pr.loc. (etym. dub.) city in the Negeb of Judah Jos 15:23

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from תנין (tannîyn) (H8577) — serpent.

Part of speech: Proper Name Location


Bible dictionary

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

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(given), one of the towns in the extreme south of Judah. (Joshua 15:23) No trace of its existence has yet been discovered.

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


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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