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# תֹּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8496

**injury** — used 4 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

injury [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8496/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּךְ²: n.m. injury, oppression [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8496/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** ii. תּוֹךְ n.m. injury, oppression;—abs. תֹּךְ, + מִרְמָה ψ 10:7; 55:12 (so Gi; Baer תּוֹךְ); תּוֹךְ, + חָמָס (gloss) 72:14; pl. אִישׁ תְּכָכִים Pr 29:13 oppressor (𝔙 creditor; cf. אישׁ חמסים 2 S 22:49 ψ 140:2, 5).—i. תּוֹךְ v. תָּוֶךְ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: oppression (3); of oppression(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 29:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.13/#tree)

רָ֤שׁ וְאִ֣ישׁ תְּכָכִ֣ים נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ מֵ֤אִיר־עֵינֵ֖י שְׁנֵיהֶ֣ם יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who.is\].poor and a.person of.oppression(s) they.meet.one.another \[is\].giving.light.to the.eyes of both.of.them Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD giveth light to the eyes of them both.

[Psalms 55:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.12/#tree)

הַוּ֥וֹת בְּקִרְבָּ֑הּ וְֽלֹא־יָמִ֥ישׁ מֵ֝רְחֹבָ֗הּ תֹּ֣ךְ וּמִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* destruction(s) \[are\].in midst its and not it.departs from its.public square oppression and deceit

*JPS 1917:* Wickedness is in the midst thereof; oppression and guile depart not from her broad place.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8496.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8496/): 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).