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# טָחַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2912

**grind** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

grind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2912/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָחַן: vb. grind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2912/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grind (NH crush, olives, etc.; Aramaic ܛܚܶܢ, טְחַן grind; Arabic طَحَنَ grind; Ethiopic ጥሕን polenta, farina hordacea)— Pf. וְטָֽחֲנוּ Nu 11:8; Impf. וַיִּטְחַן Ex 32:20; 3 fs. תִּטְחַן Jb 31:10; 2 mpl. תִּטְחָ֑נוּ Is 3:15; Inf. abs. טָחוֹן Dt 9:21; Imv. fs. טַחֲנִי Is 47:2; Pt. טוֹחֵן Ju 16:21; טֹחֲנוֹת Ec 12:3;—grind, the work of women, c. acc., with millstones רֵחַיִם Nu 11:8 (JE; obj. the manna), Is 47:2 (obj. קָ֑מַח), this fig. of humiliation of Babylon; abs. Ju 16:21; תטחן לאחר אשׁתי Jb 31:10, i.e. serve him as his slave; no obj. expr. Ex 32:20 (E), Dt 9:21 (of golden calf); הַטֹּחֲנוֹת Ec 12:3 = the teeth (cf. Arabic طَوَاحِنُ molar teeth; so in Lexx Syriac ܛܰܚܳܢܴ̈ܬܳܐ, ܛܰܚ̈ܢܳܝܳܬܳܐ); פְּנֵי עֲנִיִּים ט׳ Is 3:15 the face of the poor ye grind, fig. of extreme oppression.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: I ground \[it\] (1); grind (1); grinding (1).

## In the verses

[Job 31:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.10/#tree)

תִּטְחַ֣ן לְאַחֵ֣ר אִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝עָלֶ֗יהָ יִכְרְע֥וּן אֲחֵרִֽין׃

*Word for word:* let.her.grind for another wife my and over her let them.bow.down others

*JPS 1917:* Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

[Isaiah 47:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/#tree)

קְחִ֥י רֵחַ֖יִם וְטַ֣חֲנִי קָ֑מַח גַּלִּ֨י צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ חֶשְׂפִּי־שֹׁ֛בֶל גַּלִּי־שׁ֖וֹק עִבְרִ֥י נְהָרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* take a.hand-mill and grind flour uncover veil your strip.off a.skirt uncover a.leg pass.through rivers

*JPS 1917:* Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2912.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2912/): 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).