תְּחִלָּה
tᵉchillâh · H8462 · Hebrew · 22 occurrences
Meanings
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beginning
Process by which an event or a pattern of events starts happening
ExamplesGenesis 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 41:21 “Yet when they had devoured them, it could not be detected that they had devoured them, for they were just as ugly as before. Then I awoke.
Genesis 43:18 Now the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time that we are being brought in, so that he may attack us and overpower us, and take us as slaves with our donkeys.”
How it’s used In 5 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
7 occurrences in 5 groups
- קָצִירharvest 3
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
- חׇכְמָהwisdom 1
- מַלְכוּתkingdom, reign, kingship 1
- תַּחֲנוּןbegging for mercy 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סִכְלוּתfolly 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יִרְאָהfear 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
18 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 30
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 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
- רֵאשִׁית rêʼshîyth · H7225 · beginning, best
- Both lexemes denote temporal or sequential priority — "beginning, first" — and are same-language near-synonyms that can substitute for each other in many contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀρχή archḗ · G746 · beginning, to begin
- Greek ἀρχή renders Hebrew תְּחִלָּה as the standard translation equivalent for 'beginning' or 'first (time)' across temporal contexts, showing direct semantic overlap in their core sense of inception or priority in time.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Begin002003003005
- This noun denotes a beginning or first occasion, as in Judges 1:1's question of who should go up first against the Canaanites.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8462. techillah תְּחִלָּה noun feminine beginning, הַתְּחִלָּה Neh 11:17 (read ᵑ9 ᵐ5…
תְּחִלָּה noun feminine beginning, הַתְּחִלָּה Neh 11:17 (read ᵑ9 ᵐ5 הַתְּחִלָּה SS Öttli), בַּתְּחִלָּה Gen 13:3 Gen 13:10t.; construct תְּחִלַּת Hos 1:2; Pro 9:10; Ecc 10:13, בִּתְחִלַּת 2Ki 17:25 2Ki 17:4t., תְ֯חִלַּת. 2Sa 21:9, מִתְּחִלַּת 2Sa 21:10: — construct with nouns ׳תּ חָכְמָה Pro 9:10 the beginning, first principle of wisdom ׳תּ דִּבְרֵי Ecc 10:13 the first word, followed by rel. clause ׳תּ י ׳דִּבֶּר at the beginning of, Yahweh spake (= when Yahweh first spake) Hos 1:2; preceded by preposition מִן 2Sa 21:10, elsewhere by בְּ in the beginning, of the harvest Rth 1:22; 2Sa 21:9 (Qr), of the kingdom Ezr 4:6, of their dwelling there 2Ki 17:25, of supplications Dan 9:23, of the shooting up of vegetation Amo 7:1, ׳כְּבַתְּ as in the beginning Isa 1:26; ׳בַּתְּ at first, first in order Jdg 1:1; Jdg 20:18 (twice in verse); 2Sa 17:9; at the first, first (or former) time, i.e. first in a series of occurrences, Gen 13:3 (J), Gen 41:21 (E), Gen 43:18, Gen 43:20 (J), Dan 8:1; Dan 9:21.
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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