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# תֻּכִּיִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8500

**peacocks** — used 2 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

peacocks [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8500/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֻּכִּיִּים: n.m. peacocks [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8500/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. peacocks (according to 𝔗 𝔖 Jerome Rabb.; perhaps = Malabar tôgai, tôghai, peacock Thes1502);—1 K 10:22 = תּוּכִּיִּים 2 Ch 9:21 + ivory, apes.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: peacocks (2).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 9:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.21/#tree)

כִּֽי־אֳנִיּ֤וֹת לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הֹלְכ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ עִ֖ם עַבְדֵ֣י חוּרָ֑ם אַחַת֩ לְשָׁל֨וֹשׁ שָׁנִ֜ים תָּב֣וֹאנָה ׀ אֳנִיּ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֗ישׁ נֹֽשְׂאוֹת֙ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֔סֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּ֥ים וְקוֹפִ֖ים וְתוּכִּיִּֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) ships of the king \[were\].going Tarshish with the.servants of.Huram one.\[time\] to three years they.came the.ships of.Tarshish carrying gold and silver ivori(es) and monkeys and peacocks

*JPS 1917:* For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

[1 Kings 10:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.10.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.10.22/#tree)

כִּי֩ אֳנִ֨י תַרְשִׁ֤ישׁ לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בַּיָּ֔ם עִ֖ם אֳנִ֣י חִירָ֑ם אַחַת֩ לְשָׁלֹ֨שׁ שָׁנִ֜ים תָּב֣וֹא ׀ אֳנִ֣י תַרְשִׁ֗ישׁ נֹֽשְׂאֵת֙ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֔סֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּ֥ים וְקֹפִ֖ים וְתֻכִּיִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.ship\[s\] of.Tarshish \[belonged\].to the king on the sea with the.ship\[s\] of.Hiram one.\[time\] to three years it.came the.ship\[s\] of.Tarshish carrying (of).gold and silver ivori(es) and monkeys and peacocks

*JPS 1917:* For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram; once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8500/): 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).