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# תִּיכוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8484

**middle** — used 11 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

middle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8484/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּיכוֹן: adj. middle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8484/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. middle;—abs. תּ׳ Ex 26:28 +, fs. תִּ(י)כוֹנָה Ju 7:19 +, fpl. -נוֹת Ez 42:5, 6 (on form, v. הִיצוֹן p. 300, Ges§ 27 x);—Ex 26:28 = 36:33 (P) הַבְּרִיחַ הַתִּיכוֹן בְּתוֹךְ הַקְּרָשִׁים the middle bar (holding the ‘boards’ in their place); Ju 7:19 הָאַשְׁמוּרָה הַתּ׳ the middle watch (of the night); of the middle story of side-chambers to Temple 1 K 6:6, 8b, b (v 8 a read c. 𝔊 𝔗 הַתַּחְתֹּנָה for הַתִּי׳), Ez 41:7b (read c. 𝔊 𝔖 וּמִן־התחתונה יַעֲלוּ לַתִּיכוֹנָה וּמִן־ הַתִּיכוֹנָה על־העליונה), 42:5, 6; 2 K 20:4 הָעִיר הַתִּיכֹנָה (but read c. Qr Vrss חָצֵר הַתּ׳, i.e. the חָצֵר הָאַחֶרֶת, v. I. חָצֵר 2).—חָצֵר הַתִּיכוֹן Ez 47:16, v. p. 347 b.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: middle (5); \[chamber\] (2); the middle \[rooms\] (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 26:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.28/#tree)

וְהַבְּרִ֥יחַ הַתִּיכֹ֖ן בְּת֣וֹךְ הַקְּרָשִׁ֑ים מַבְרִ֕חַ מִן־הַקָּצֶ֖ה אֶל־הַקָּצֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the bar (the) middle in the.middle of the.frames \[will.be\].passing.through from the end to the end

*JPS 1917:* and the middle bar in the midst of the boards, which shall pass through from end to end.

[2 Kings 20:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.20.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.20.4/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ לֹ֣א יָצָ֔א חָצֵ֖ר הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֑ה וּדְבַר־יְהוָ֔ה הָיָ֥ה אֵלָ֖יו לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.was Isaiah not he.had.gone.out \[the\].court (the) middle and the.word of.Yahweh it.came to him (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out of the inner court of the city, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8484/): 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).