ʼÔwnân — H209

H209 · Hebrew — אונן

Pronunciation: o-nawn'

Definition

masculine proper noun

Onan, a son of Judah

  1. Onan = "strong"
  2. second son of Judah, slain by God for not fulfilling the levitical requirement to beget a child with the wife of a dead, childless brother

Usually translated as

Onan

Origin

a variation of H207; strong

Occurrences

ʼÔwnân occurs 8 times in 6 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Numbers (1), 1 Chronicles (1)

Strong's Lexicon — O