Yoqtan יׇקְטָן

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Yoqtan
יׇקְטָן
Transliterationyoqtan
Strong's numberH3355
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossJoktan
Occurrences6 in 6 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (3)

Yoqtan (Hebrew יׇקְטָן, Strong's H3355) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Joktan”. It occurs 6 times.

Definition

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.25;
son of: Eber (H5677);
brother of: Peleg (H6389);
father of: Almodad (H0486), Sheleph (H8026), Hazarmaveth (H2700), Jerah (H3392), Hadoram (H1913A), Uzal (H0187), Diklah (H1853), Obal (H5745), Abimael (H0039), Sheba (H7614H), Ophir (H0211), Havilah (H2341I) and Jobab (H3103)
§ Joktan = "smallness"
son of Eber and descendant of Shem and patriarch of various Arabian tribes

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVjoktan (6)
BSBjoktan (6)

Verses

Every verse with Yoqtan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Chronicles

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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