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- Gender
- male
- Spouse
- Tamar
- Father
- Judah
- Sibling
- Shelah
- Image
- Facial Chronicle - b.01, p.254 - Story of Onan.jpg
- Significant event
- coitus interruptus
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- present in work
- Genesis 46
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- killed by
- Yahweh
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- Early Jewish views
- Classical Christian views
- Roman Catholic views
- Early Protestant views
- Disputes
- Onanism
- Notes
- References
thumb|Story of Onan
Onan was a figure detailed in the Book of Genesis chapter 38, as the second son of Judah who married the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite. Onan had an older brother Er and a younger brother, Shelah, as well.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Onan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.