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# טְחוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2911

**grinding-mill** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

grinding-mill [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2911/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טְחוֹן: grinding-mill, hand-mill [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2911/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] grinding-mill, hand-mill; only בַּחוּרִים ט׳ נָשָׂ֑אוּ La 5:13 the young men have borne the mill (i.e. been compelled to bear it).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a mill (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.13/#tree)

בַּחוּרִים֙ טְח֣וֹן נָשָׂ֔אוּ וּנְעָרִ֖ים בָּעֵ֥ץ כָּשָֽׁלוּ׃

*Word for word:* young.men a.mill they.have.lifted and young.men with (the) wood they.have.staggered

*JPS 1917:* The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2911.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2911/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).