[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%AA%D7%97%D7%A9/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ת](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/tav/)‎ / תַּחַשׁ‎

# תַּחַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8476

**taḫaš** — used 14 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

taḫaš [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8476/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּ֫חַשׁ: n.m. taḫaš [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8476/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. taḫaš, a kind of leather or skin, and perhaps the animal yielding it (prob. the dugong, cf. Arabic تُخَسٌ dolphin, Thes 1500 Di-Ry Ex 25:5 PostHastDB badger; Assyrian taḫšu (Dl Baer Ezech. xvi), for which DlProl. 77 ff.; HWB 705 conj. meaning sheep(skin); Bondi Egyptiaca 1 ff. cp. Egypt. ṯḥś, leather; v. summary of views M’Lean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. badgers’ skins);—abs. ת׳ Nu 4:6 +, תָּחַשׁ v 8 +; pl. תְּחָשִׁים Ex 25:5 +;—leather used for (woman’s) sandals Ez 16:10; elsewhere for cover of tabernacle Nu 4:25, עוֹר ת׳ v 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, עֹרֹת (הַ)תְּחָשִׁים Ex 25:5; 26:14; 35:7, 23; 36:19; 39:34 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of dolphin (6); of dolphins (5); leather (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.5/#tree)

וְעֹרֹ֨ת אֵילִ֧ם מְאָדָּמִ֛ים וְעֹרֹ֥ת תְּחָשִׁ֖ים וַעֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and hides of.rams dyed.red and skins of.dolphins and wood(s) of.acacia

*JPS 1917:* and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;

[Exodus 35:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.7/#tree)

וְעֹרֹ֨ת אֵילִ֧ם מְאָדָּמִ֛ים וְעֹרֹ֥ת תְּחָשִׁ֖ים וַעֲצֵ֥י שִׂטִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and hides of.rams dyed.red and skins of.dolphins and wood(s) of.acacia

*JPS 1917:* and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8476.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8476/): 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).