חֲתָנוּת, (preced. wds.) marital relation, intermarriage, wedlock (connubium). Ab. Zar. 31ᵇ, a. e. משום ח׳ as a guard against intermarriage (between Jews and gentiles). Ib. 36ᵇ, v. אִישׁוּת. Yeb. 76ᵃ לית להו ח׳ they have no connubium (a marriage with them is not legally recognized); a. e.—בית ח׳ additional rooms for the young couple in the bridegroom’s paternal house. B. Bath. VI, 4 (98ᵇ). Taan. 14ᵇ