Nathan

Gender Masculine
Scripts נָתָן (Hebrew) Pron. /ˈneɪ.θən/ (English) /na.tɑ̃/ (French) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

From the Hebrew name נָתָן (Naṯan) meaning "he gave" [2] [3] . In the Old Testament this is the name of a prophet during the reign of King David. He chastised David for his adultery with Bathsheba and for the death of Uriah the Hittite. Later he championed Solomon as David's successor. This was also the name of a son of David and Bathsheba.It has been used as a Christian given name in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Nathan Hale (1755-1776), an American spy executed by the British during the American Revolution.

Related Names

Rootnaṯan
VariantNatan (Hebrew)
DiminutivesNat, Nate (English)
Other Languages & CulturesNatan (Biblical Hebrew) Nátán (Hungarian) Natan (Polish) Neithan, Neizan (Spanish) Nosson (Yiddish)

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Name Days

France: March 7

Images

19th-century woodcut depicting the Prophet Nathan rebuking David19th-century woodcut depicting the Prophet Nathan rebuking David
  1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g3481, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g3481.
  2. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h5416, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h5416.
  3. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h5414, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h5414.

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