נָתָןNâthân

Nathan, the name of five Israelites

Pronunciation: naw-thawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5416

Meanings

1. a son of David (2 Samuel 5:14; 1 Chronicles 3:15; 1 Chronicles 14:4)

2. the prophet of David's time (2 Samuel 7:2; 2 Samuel 7:3; 2 Samuel 7:4)

3. father of one of David's heroes (2 Samuel 23:36)

4. father of officers of Solomon (1 Kings 4:5)

5. name in Judah

6. companion of Ezra from Babylon (Ezra 8:16)

7. one of those who took strange wives (Ezra 10:39)

8. head of a family (Zechariah 12:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 42 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 5:14 These are the names of David’s sons who were born in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
  • 2 Samuel 7:2 the king summoned Nathan the prophet. “Look,” David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of God is out there in a tent!”
  • 2 Samuel 7:3 Nathan replied to the king, “Go ahead and do whatever you have in mind, for the Lord is with you.”
  • 2 Samuel 7:4 But that same night the Lord said to Nathan,
  • 2 Samuel 7:17 So Nathan went back to David and told him everything the Lord had said in this vision.
  • 2 Samuel 12:1 So the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to tell David this story: “There were two men in a certain town. One was rich, and one was poor.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).