תַּחְתּוֹן tachton

Hebrew word for “lower” · Strong’s H8481 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

lower, lowest, nether

Senses in the lexicon

• lower (8)
• Lower (Beth Horon) (5)

How it is translated

Glosses given for tachton in context, with how often each is used:

• lower 10
• more than the lower rooms 2
• lower story 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 40 (2), Ezekiel 42 (2), Joshua 16 (1), Joshua 18 (1), 1 Kings 6 (1), 1 Kings 9 (1), 1 Chronicles 7 (1), 2 Chronicles 8 (1), Isaiah 22 (1), Ezekiel 41 (1)

Forms

• התחתונה 5
• תחתון 3
• התחתון 2
• התחתנה 1
• מהתחתנות 1
• מהתחתונות 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tachton more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בֵּית חוֹרֹן bet choron “Beth-horon” 5
• תִּיכוֹן tikhon “middle” 4
• עֶלְיוֹן elyon “Most High” 4
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 4
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 3
• גֶּזֶר gezer “Gezer” 2
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 3
• הֶן hen “them” 2
• כָּתֵף kateph “shoulder” 2
• חוּץ chuts “outside” 2
• חָצֵר chatser “court” 2
• גְּבוּל gevul “border” 2

Key verses

The verses using tachton that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Joshua 16:3 — And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
• Joshua 18:13 — And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that…
• 1 Kings 6:6 — The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house…
• 1 Kings 9:17 — And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
• 1 Chronicles 7:24 — (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
• 2 Chronicles 8:5 — Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
• Isaiah 22:9 — Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
• Ezekiel 40:19 — Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
• Ezekiel 41:7 — And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house:…
• Ezekiel 42:5 — Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
• Ezekiel 42:6 — For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost…
• Ezekiel 43:14 — And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater…

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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.