Onan

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pain; force; iniquity
(same as On, Onam)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


ONAN.—A son of Judah (Gen_38:4; Gen_46:12, Num_26:19, 1Ch_2:3). After the decease of his elder brother, Er, he was instructed by his father to contract a levirate marriage with Tamar. The device by which he evaded the object of this marriage ‘was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him’ (Gen_38:8-10).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Judah's second son by the Canaanitess, daughter of Shua (Gen_38:4). Slain by Jehovah for the unnatural means which he took to have no issue by his brother Er's widow, whom he had married according to the custom, to perpetuate the race (Gen_38:4-9).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


O'nan. (strong). The second son of Judah, by the Canaanitess, "the daughter of Shua." Gen_38:4; 1Ch_2:3. "What he did was evil in the eyes of Jehovah and he slew him also, as he had slain his elder brother." Gen_38:9. His death took place before the family of Jacob went down into Egypt. Gen_46:12; Num_26:19. (B.C. 1706).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


o?nan ('onan, ?vigorous?; compare ONAM: A ?son? of Judah (Gen_38:4, Gen_38:8-10; Gen_46:12; Num_26:19; 1Ch_2:3); ?The story of the untimely death of Er and Onan implies that two of the ancient clans of Judah early disappeared? (Curtis, Chron, 84). See Skinner, Gen, 452, where it is pointed out that in Gen_38:11 Judah plainly attributes the death of his sons in some way to Tamar herself. The name is allied to Onam.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


O?nan (strong, stout), second son of Judah, who, being constrained by the obligations of the ancient Levirate law to espouse Tamar, his elder brother's widow, took means to frustrate the intention of this usage, which was to provide heirs for a brother who had died childless. This crime, rendered without excuse by the allowance of polygamy, and the seriousness of which can scarcely be appreciated but in respect to the usages of the times in which it was committed, was punished by premature death (Gen_38:4, sq.)




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Onan
(Heb. Onanz', אוֹנָן, strong; Sept. Αὐνάν), the second son of Judah by the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite (Gen_38:4; Num_26:19; 1Ch_3:3). Being constrained by the obligations of the ancient Levirate law (q.v.) to espouse Tamar, his elder brother's widow, he took means to frustrate the intention of this usage, which was to provide heirs for a brother who had died childless (Deu_25:5-10; Mar_12:1-9). This offense, rendered without excuse by the allowance of polygamy, and the seriousness of which can scarcely be appreciated but in respect to the usages of the times in which it was committed, was punished by premature death (Gen_38:8 sq.). B.C. cir. 1870. His act was evidently different from the vice which has been given his name.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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