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תַּחַשׁ tachash
Hebrew word for “leather” · Strong’s H8476 · used 14 times in 14 verses
Meaning
1) a kind of leather, skin, or animal hide;
How it is translated
Glosses given for tachash in context, with how often each is used:
- dolphin 7
- dolphins 6
- leather 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 4 (7), Exodus 35 (2), Exodus 25 (1), Exodus 26 (1), Exodus 36 (1), Exodus 39 (1), Ezekiel 16 (1)
Forms
- תחשׁ 7
- תחשׁים 5
- התחשׁים 1
- התחשׁ 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with tachash more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עוֹר or “skin” 12
- מִכְסֶה mikhseh “covering” 8
- אָדֹם adam “to redden” 6
- אַיִל ayil “ram” 6
- תְּכֵלֶת tekhelet “blue” 4
- פָּרַשׂ paras “to spread” 4
- מַעַל maal “above” 4
- כָּסָה kasah “to cover” 4
- בַּד bad “alone” 4
- בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 4
- כָּסוּי kasuy “covering” 2
- מוֹט mot “yoke” 2
Key verses
The verses using tachash that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 25:5 — And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- Exodus 26:14 — And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
- Exodus 35:23 — And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.
- Exodus 36:19 — And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
- Numbers 4:6 — And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
- Numbers 4:8 — And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
- Numbers 4:10 — And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
- Numbers 4:11 — And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
- Numbers 4:12 — And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering…
- Numbers 4:14 — And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all…
- Numbers 4:25 — And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that is above…
- Ezekiel 16:10 — I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
See all 14 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.