Strong's #2859: chathan (pronounced khaw-than')

a primitive root; to give (a daughter) away in marriage; hence (generally) to contract affinity by marriage:--join in affinity, father in law, make marriages, mother in law, son in law.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châthan

1) to become a son-in-law, make oneself a daughter' s husband

1a) (Qal) wife' s father, wife' s mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law (participle)

1b) (Hithpael) to make oneself a daughter' s husband

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Genesis 34:9: " And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters"
Exodus 3:1: "kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led"
Exodus 4:18: "and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return"
Exodus 18:1: "the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that"
Exodus 18:2: "Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife,"
Exodus 18:5: "Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses"
Exodus 18:6: "unto Moses, I thy father-in-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife,"
Exodus 18:7: "went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each"
Exodus 18:8: "told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done"
Exodus 18:12: "Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron"
Exodus 18:12: "bread with Moses' father-in-law before God."
Exodus 18:14: " father-in-law saw all that he did"
Exodus 18:15: "said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire"
Exodus 18:17: " father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest"
Exodus 18:24: "hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said."
Exodus 18:27: "let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land."
Numbers 10:29: "of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place"
Deuteronomy 7:3: " shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter"
Deuteronomy 27:23: "be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen."
Joshua 23:12: "nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they"
Judges 1:16: "of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees"
Judges 4:11: "the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites,"
Judges 19:4: " And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days:"
Judges 19:7: "rose up to depart, his father-in-law urged him: therefore he lodged there again."
Judges 19:9: "he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold,"
1 Kings 3:1: " made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took"
2 Chronicles 18:1: "riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab."
Ezra 9:14: "break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not"