Ownan - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G209 — akolytos (“no man forbidding him”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H209 אוֹנָן (Ownan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Ownan (o-nawn') n/p. 1. strong 2. Onan, a son of Judah It has 6 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include onan. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Ownan (o-nawn') n/p. 1. strong 2. Onan, a son of Judah [a variation of H207] KJV: Onan. Root(s): H207
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H209. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
Onan
Usage: A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.38.4; son of: Judah (H3063) and Bath-shua (H1323I) ; brother of: Er (H6147) and Shelah (H7956); half-brother of: Perez (H6557) and Zerah (H2226I) § Onan = "strong" 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Ownan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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6 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H209.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H209, grouped by book.
Onan (Strong's H209) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Onan". Ownan (o-nawn') n/p. 1. strong 2. Onan, a son of Judah
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's H209 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H209 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as onan. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.