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in reply to a message by persteph
Jathan is a name metioned in passing in the Book of Tobit, which is part of the Old Testament in Roman Catholic Bibles and part of the Apocrypha in Protestant Bibles. All that is said in that reference is that Jathan was a descendant of the prophet Shemaiah. I have not been able to find any information about its original meaning in Hebrew, if any.
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Googling araound a bit, I found this:
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
JATHAN
ja'-than (Iathan; Nathan):
For "Jonathas" in the King James Version, which is the Latin form for the Hebrew "Jonathan." Jonathan was brother of Ananias and "son of that great Sammaias" (Tobit 5:13).
http://arabic.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4872
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/J/JATHAN/
So JATHAN seems to be a contraction of JONATHAN, maybe influenced by king JOTHAM who is sometimes spelled JOTHAN. JA and JO are to some degree interchangeable with Hebrew names. But this last bit is just a vague theory.
I have tried to find the name Jathan in the verse mentioned above - but without success. Neither in the Septuagint (which has two parallel texts) nor in Vulgate. So I cannot really back it up that way.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
JATHAN
ja'-than (Iathan; Nathan):
For "Jonathas" in the King James Version, which is the Latin form for the Hebrew "Jonathan." Jonathan was brother of Ananias and "son of that great Sammaias" (Tobit 5:13).
http://arabic.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4872
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/J/JATHAN/
So JATHAN seems to be a contraction of JONATHAN, maybe influenced by king JOTHAM who is sometimes spelled JOTHAN. JA and JO are to some degree interchangeable with Hebrew names. But this last bit is just a vague theory.
I have tried to find the name Jathan in the verse mentioned above - but without success. Neither in the Septuagint (which has two parallel texts) nor in Vulgate. So I cannot really back it up that way.
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thanks a bunch
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Checking my New Revised Standard Version, it has the last sentence in verse 14, Chapter 5 of Tobit as:
For I knew Hananiah and Nathan.
There is a footnote on "Nathan", and the footnote reads:
"Other ancient authorities read Jathan or Nathamiah."
So this is a place where translators get to take their choice, and there must be some translations that use Jathan instead of Nathan in that verse.
For I knew Hananiah and Nathan.
There is a footnote on "Nathan", and the footnote reads:
"Other ancient authorities read Jathan or Nathamiah."
So this is a place where translators get to take their choice, and there must be some translations that use Jathan instead of Nathan in that verse.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you. Any other info you find would be most appreciated. Did you say you think it's a Hebrew name? And do you know where it is mentioned in the Bible?
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