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title: חֲתֻנָּה — marriage · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲתֻנָּה (2861), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: marriage. BDB 1906: n.f. marriage, wedding. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲתֻנָּה

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«חֲתֻנָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **marriage** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2861 · **BDB:** חֲתֻנָּה

### Glosses

his.wedding (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

marriage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2861/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. marriage, wedding [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2861/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. marriage, wedding (NH חִיתּוּן id.; Aramaic חִיתּוּנָא id.; Arabic خُتُونَةٌ marriage-alliance, marriage)—only בְּיוֹם חֲתֻנָּתו Ct 3:11 on the day of his marriage.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲתֻנָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2861/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 3:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.11/)

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צְאֶ֧ינָה ׀ וּֽרְאֶ֛ינָה בְּנ֥וֹת צִיּ֖וֹן בַּמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בָּעֲטָרָ֗ה שֶׁעִטְּרָה־לּ֤וֹ אִמּוֹ֙ בְּי֣וֹם חֲתֻנָּת֔וֹ וּבְי֖וֹם שִׂמְחַ֥ת לִבּֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* come.out and look O.daughters of.Zion on the king Solomon on the crown which she.crowned (to) him mother his on the.day his.wedding his and on the.day of.the.rejoicing his.heart his

*JPS 1917:* Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

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