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Strong's #3355 - יָקְטָן

Transliteration
Yoqṭân
Phonetics
yok-tawn'
Origin
from (H6994)
Parts of Speech
proper masculine noun
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

  1. Joktan = "smallness"
    1. son of Eber and descendant of Shem and patriarch of various Arabian tribes

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
ASV (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
BSB (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
CSB (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
ESV (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
KJV (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
LEB (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
LSB (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
N95 (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
NAS (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
NLT (0)
The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
WEB (6)
Genesis 3
1 Chronicles 3
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 יָקְטָן proper name, masculine son of Eber, descendant of Shem (DHM in MV compare his name in Arabic tradition, namely †aµtân: the √ √ and being both explained in Muµî‰ by strike, beat; see Lane1777ff.) — Genesis 10:25,26,29 = 1 Chronicles 1:19; 1 Chronicles 1:20; 1 Chronicles 1:23, 'father' of various tribes of Yemen; ᵐ5 Ιεκταν.


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יָקְטָן (“small”), [Joktan], pr.n. of one of the descendants of Shem, a son of Heber, Genesis 10:25, 26 Genesis 10:26 to whom many of the tribes of southern Arabia refer their origin. In the Arabian genealogies he is also called قحطان Kahtân. See Bochart, Phaleg. iii. chap. 15; Pococke, Spec. Hist. Arab. page 3, 38; A. Schultens, Histor. Imperii Joctanidarum in Arabia Felice, Harderov. 1786, 4to.


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List of Word Forms
וְיָקְטָ֣ן ויקטן יָקְטָֽן׃ יקטן׃ veyakeTan wə·yā·qə·ṭān wəyāqəṭān yā·qə·ṭān yakeTan yāqəṭān
 
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