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  #2859 חוֹתֵן chathan {khaw-than'}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 781b; v

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 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

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

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.

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#2859.
חָתַן
chathan (368d); denom. vb. from 2860a; make oneself a daughter’s husband:—
NASB - allied himself by marriage(1), become the son-in-law(4), formed a marriage alliance(1), intermarry(4), marriage alliance(1), son-in-law(1).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - law 27, affinity 3, marriages 3; 33

affinity
1 Kings 3:1. 2 Chronicles 18:1. Ezra 9:14.

law
Exodus 3:1; 4:18; 18:1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 12, 14, 15, 17, 24, 27. Numbers 10:29. Deuteronomy 27:23. Judges 1:16; 4:11; 19:4, 7, 9. 1 Samuel 18:21, 22, 23, 26, 27.

marriages
Genesis 34:9. Deuteronomy 7:3. Joshua 23:12.