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# תַּחְתּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8481

**lower** — used 13 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

lower [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8481/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּחְתּוֹן: adj. lower, lowest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8481/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. lower, lowest;—abs. תּ׳ Jos 16:3 +, fs. -תֹּנָה Is 22:9 +, fpl. -תֹּנֹת Ez 42:5, 6;—lower, Is 22:9 הַבְּרֵכָה הַתּ׳ the lower pool (in Jerus.), of pavement and gate of outer (lower) temple-court Ez 40:18, 19 (l. השּׁ׳ הַתַּחְתּוֹן), of lower ledge (עֲזָרְה) of altar, 43:14; of the lowest of the three stories of side-chambers surrounding the temple, 1 K 6:6 הַיָּצוּעַ הַתּ׳, + v 8a (v. תִּיכוֹן), Ez 41:7 (read וּמִן for וְכֵן), 42:5, 6; in place-name, בֵּית־חֹרוֹן תּ׳ Jos 16:3; 18:13; 1 K 9:17 (‖ 2 Ch 8:5 הַתּ׳), בֵּית־חֹרוֹן הַתּ׳ 1 Ch 7:24; 2 Ch 8:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lower (10); the lower \[rooms\] (2); \[story\] (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.17/#tree)

וַיִּ֤בֶן שְׁלֹמֹה֙ אֶת־גָּ֔זֶר וְאֶת־בֵּ֥ית חֹרֹ֖ן בֵּ֥ית חֹרֹ֖ן תַּחְתּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and he.rebuilt Solomon (et) Gezer and (et) Beth Horon lower

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

[Isaiah 22:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.9/#tree)

וְאֵ֨ת בְּקִיעֵ֧י עִיר־דָּוִ֛ד רְאִיתֶ֖ם כִּי־רָ֑בּוּ וַֽתְּקַבְּצ֔וּ אֶת־מֵ֥י הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.breaches of.the.city of.David you.saw (dm).that they.were.many and you.gathered (et) the.waters of the.pool (the) lower

*JPS 1917:* And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8481/): 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).