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# תֹּכֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8506

**measurement** — 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

measurement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8506/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּ֫כֶן: n.m. measurement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8506/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 45:11 measurement;—cstr. ת׳ לְבֵנִים Ex 5:18 (J) the measurement, tale, of bricks; abs. Ez 45:11 capacity (of ephah and bath).

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 (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: measurement (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 5:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.18/#tree)

וְעַתָּה֙ לְכ֣וּ עִבְד֔וּ וְתֶ֖בֶן לֹא־יִנָּתֵ֣ן לָכֶ֑ם וְתֹ֥כֶן לְבֵנִ֖ים תִּתֵּֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* and now go work and straw not it.will.be.given to you and.\[the\] measurement of.bricks you.will.give

*JPS 1917:* Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.'

[Ezekiel 45:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.45.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.45.11/#tree)

הָאֵיפָ֣ה וְהַבַּ֗ת תֹּ֤כֶן אֶחָד֙ יִֽהְיֶ֔ה לָשֵׂ֕את מַעְשַׂ֥ר הַחֹ֖מֶר הַבָּ֑ת וַעֲשִׂירִ֤ת הַחֹ֙מֶר֙ הָֽאֵיפָ֔ה אֶל־הַחֹ֖מֶר יִהְיֶ֥ה מַתְכֻּנְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the ephah and the bath measurement one it.will.be \[is\].to carry the.tenth.part of the.homer the bath and the.tenth.\[part\] of the.homer the ephah to the homer it.will.be measurement its

*JPS 1917:* The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer; the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8506.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8506/): 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).