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# תׇּכְנִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8508

**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/1514/8508/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּכְנִית: n.f. measurement, proportion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8508/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. measurement, proportion;—abs. Ez 43:10 (תָּכְנִיתוֹ 𝔊 Ew Hi Co Toy al.); חוֹתֵם ת׳ 28:12 thou wert one sealing up (the) measure (RVm), i.e. exhibiting perfect proportion; Codd Sm al. חוֹחַם ת׳ the seal of (perfect) proportion; but dub., v. Comm.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a pattern (1); of an example (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 43:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.43.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.43.10/#tree)

אַתָּ֣ה בֶן־אָדָ֗ם הַגֵּ֤ד אֶת־בֵּֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶת־הַבַּ֔יִת וְיִכָּלְמ֖וּ מֵעֲוֺנֽוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם וּמָדְד֖וּ אֶת־תָּכְנִֽית׃

*Word for word:* you O.son of.humankind declare (et) the.house of.Israel (et) the house so that.they.may.be.ashamed from iniquities their and they.will.measure (et) a.pattern

*JPS 1917:* Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure accurately.

[Ezekiel 28:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.12/#tree)

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שָׂ֥א קִינָ֖ה עַל־מֶ֣לֶךְ צ֑וֹר וְאָמַ֣רְתָּ לּ֗וֹ כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה אַתָּה֙ חוֹתֵ֣ם תָּכְנִ֔ית מָלֵ֥א חָכְמָ֖ה וּכְלִ֥יל יֹֽפִי׃

*Word for word:* O.son of.humankind take.up a.lamentation on the.king of.Tyre and you.will.say to him thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh you \[were.one.who\].seals of.an.example \[you.were\].full of.wisdom and perfect of.beauty

*JPS 1917:* 'Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say unto him: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou seal most accurate, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8508.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8508/): 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).