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# תָּקַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8626

**become straight** — 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

become straight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8626/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּקַן: vb. become straight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8626/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. become straight (NH תִּקֵּן arrange, put right; Ecclus 47:9 תיקן set in order; Assyrian taḳânu, be well ordered, especially Pi. as NH; Aramaic ܬܩܶܢ be established, firm, Pa. ܬܰܩܶܢ, תַּקֵּין fix, arrange, prepare, etc.; Palm. Pa. erect);— Inf. cstr. לִתְקֹן Ec 1:15 (opp. מְעֻוָּת bent). Inf. cstr. לְתַקֵּן 7:13 make straight (opp. עִוָּה); Pf. 3 ms. תִּקֵּן 12:9 put straight, arrange in order (proverbs).

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: become straight (1); he arranged in order (1); make straight (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.15/#tree)

מְעֻוָּ֖ת לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לִתְקֹ֑ן וְחֶסְר֖וֹן לֹא־יוּכַ֥ל לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[that.which.is\].bent not it.is.able to become.straight and something.missing not it.is.able to be.numbered

*JPS 1917:* That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

[Ecclesiastes 7:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.13/#tree)

רְאֵ֖ה אֶת־מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּ֣י מִ֤י יוּכַל֙ לְתַקֵּ֔ן אֵ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עִוְּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* consider (et) the.work of.(the) God (dm) who? is.he.able to make.straight (et) \[that\].which he has.bent.it

*JPS 1917:* Consider the work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8626.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8626/): 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).