חָתַן châthan — to give (a daughter) away in marriage
Translated in the KJV as join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law.
a primitive root; to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage.
châthan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 22
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;
Hitpa'el
Infinitive construct 4Imperative 2Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›