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# תְּכוּנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8498

**arrangement** — used 3 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

arrangement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8498/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּכוּנָה: n.f. arrangement, preparation, fixed place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8498/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. arrangement, preparation, fixed place;— arrangement, disposition תְּכוּנָתוֹ Ez 43:11, i.e. the arrangement of the house (del. Co with 𝔊 codd.) preparation, וְאֵין קַצֶה לַתְּכוּנָה Na 2:10 and no end to the preparation (i.e. things prepared, supply, store). fixed place, i.e. dwelling-place, of God (= מָכוֹן) תְּכוּנָתוֹ Jb 23:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 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: arrangement (1); place (1); supply (1).

## In the verses

[Job 23:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.3/#tree)

מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי וְאֶמְצָאֵ֑הוּ אָ֝ב֗וֹא עַד־תְּכוּנָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* who? will.he.give I.knew and I will.find.him I.will.come to place his

*JPS 1917:* Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!

[Nahum 2:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.10/#tree)

בֹּ֥זּוּ כֶ֖סֶף בֹּ֣זּוּ זָהָ֑ב וְאֵ֥ין קֵ֙צֶה֙ לַתְּכוּנָ֔ה כָּבֹ֕ד מִכֹּ֖ל כְּלִ֥י חֶמְדָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* plunder silver plunder gold and there.\[is\].not an.end to the supply abundance from every article of.preciousness

*JPS 1917:* Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, rich with all precious vessels.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8498.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8498/): 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).