חֹתֵן verbal noun 1. masculine wife's father (Arabic a circumciser, hence father-in-law, with reference to circumcision performed on young men just before marriage; relation on wife's side; see WeProl. 1886, 355 Anm, 1; Skizzen iii, 154 StaZAW 1886. 143 Aum. NöZMG 1886, 187; otherwise DlPr 91 LagBN 116) — construct חֹתֵן [Exod 18:1] + 9t., חֹתֶנְךָ [Exod 18:6], חֹתְנוֺ [Exod 3:1]+ 9 t.; — usually of Moses' wife's father [Exod 3:1]; [Exod 4:18]; [Exod 18:1]; [Exod 18:2]; [Exod 18:5]; [Exod 18:6]; [Exod 18:7]; [Exod 18:8]; [Exod 18:12] (twice in verse); [Exod 18:14]; [Exod 18:15]; [Exod 18:17]; [Exod 18:24]; [Exod 18:27] (all E), [Num 10:29] (J), [Judg 1:16]; [Judg 4:11] of a Levite [Judg 19:4]; [Judg 19:7]; [Judg 19:9].
2. feminine wife's mother, only suffix חֹתַנְתּוֺ [Deut 27:23].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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