Hebrew word · H3506

יִתְרָן

veyitran

Ithran

From the root y-t-r, 'to remain, be left over, abound.' Related words are yeter, 'remainder, excess, preeminence,' and the name Jether/Jethro. The name probably means something like 'abundance' or 'profit.'

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.36.26;

son of: Dishon (H1787);

brother of: Hemdan (H2533), Eshban (H0790) and Cheran (H3763)

§ Ithran = "advantage"

1) an Edomite, son of Dishon, a Horite, and probably a phylarch of a tribe of the Horim

2) an descendant of Asher

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 7:37

Range of meaning

From the root y-t-r, 'to remain, be left over, abound.' Related words are yeter, 'remainder, excess, preeminence,' and the name Jether/Jethro. The name probably means something like 'abundance' or 'profit.'

Against the English

Rendered 'Ithran' in all major versions. The next verse's 'Jether' (yeter) is the same root, but English readers would not notice this.

Used elsewhere in the period

Another Ithran is a Horite (Edomite) clan name in Gen 36:26 and 1 Chr 1:41. Names from y-t-r are common: Jether, Jethro, Ithra, Ithream.

Where it appears

Genesis · 1

  1. Genesis 36:26 וְיִתְרָ֥ן and Ithran

    These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

1 Chronicles · 2

  1. 1 Chronicles 1:41 וְיִתְרָ֥ן and Ithran

    The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

  2. 1 Chronicles 7:37 וְיִתְרָ֖ן and Ithran

    Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

    Here: Tenth son of Zophah. The name is from the root y-t-r, 'remainder, abundance, excess.' He is almost certainly the same man as the 'Jether' whose sons are listed in the next verse.

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