טְחוֹן
ṭᵉchôwn · H2911 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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hand-mill
Set of two stones, that are used to grind grain into flour; the grain was placed on the stationary bottom stone, and the top stone was pressed down on top of the grain and scraped back and forth; associated with hardness
ExamplesLamentations 5:13 Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths staggered under loads of wood.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- דּוּךְ dûwk · H1743 · to pound
- Hebrew verb for pounding or crushing, semantically overlapping with grinding as a method of reducing grain or other substances to powder, though דּוּק may emphasize the crushing action more than the rotary grinding motion.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀλήθω alḗthō · G229 · to grind grain
- Greek verb for grinding grain, the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew grinding terminology in LXX contexts (e.g., Ecclesiastes 12:3-4 where grinding ceases).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Tools001003001001017
- טְחוֹן names the grinding mill, the tool at which young men were forced to labor in Lamentations 5:13.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2911. tchown טְחוֺן noun [masculine] grinding-mill, hand-mill; only ט ׳בַּחוּרִים…
טְחוֺן noun [masculine] grinding-mill, hand-mill; only ט ׳בַּחוּרִים נָשָׂ֑אוּ Lam 5:13 the young men have borne the mill (i.e. been compelled to bear it).
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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