טָחָה
ṭâchâh · H2909 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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Distance that is equivalent to the distance an average archer can shoot an arrow ((range of a) bowshot)
ExamplesGenesis 21:16 Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “May I not see the boy die!” And she sat opposite him, and raised her voice and wept.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קֶשֶׁתbow 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dimension002001001020
- טָחָה denotes the distance of a bow-shot, a unit of measured distance, as Hagar sitting about a bowshot away from Ishmael (Genesis 21:16).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2909. tachah [טָחָה] verb hurl, shoot (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic spread, extend, carry far…
[טָחָה] verb hurl, shoot (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic spread, extend, carry far with, e.g. a ball Lane1832c) — only
Pil. Participle (Ges§ 75 R 18) plural construct קֶשֶׁת כִּמְטַחֲוֵי הַרְחֵק Gen 21:16 (E), literally making distant like shooters of a bow = about a bowshot off.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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