תִּיכוֹן tikhon

Hebrew word for “middle” · Strong’s H8484 · used 11 times in 9 verses

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Meaning

middle

How it is translated

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

• middle 7
• more than the middle rooms 2
• middle extension 1
• middle story 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 6 (2), Ezekiel 42 (2), Exodus 26 (1), Exodus 36 (1), Judges 7 (1), 2 Kings 20 (1), Ezekiel 41 (1)

Forms

• התיכנה 4
• התיכן 2
• התיכונה 1
• והתיכנה 1
• לתיכונה 1
• ומהתכנות 1
• ומהתיכנות 1

Words used with it

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

• תַּחְתּוֹן tachton “lower” 4
• קָצֶה qatseh “end” 3
• צֵלָע tsela “side” 2
• קֶרֶשׁ qeresh “board” 2
• בְּרִיחַ beriach “bar” 2
• הֶן hen “them” 2
• עֶלְיוֹן elyon “Most High” 2
• בָּרַח barach “to flee” 2
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 2
• שְׁלִישִׁי shelishi “third” 2
• חָצֵר chatser “court” 2
• מִן־ min “from” 3

Key verses

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

• Exodus 26:28 — And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
• Exodus 36:33 — And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
• Judges 7:19 — So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the…
• 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 6:8 — The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into…
• 2 Kings 20:4 — And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
• 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…

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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.