Onan
Belongs to: Tribe of Judah
Father: Judah
Mother: Daughter of Shuah
Mentioned in 6 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Onan is mentioned
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.
Read in contextGenesis 38:4
Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
Read in contextGenesis 38:8–9
8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
Read in contextGenesis 46:12
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
Read in contextNumbers 26:19
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
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