תַּחְתּוֹן
tachtôwn · H8481 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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lower
State in which an object or town is situated at a lower elevation than another place
ExamplesJoshua 16:3 Then it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of lower Beth-horon even to Gezer, and it ended at the sea.
Joshua 18:13 Then from there the border continued to Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel) southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, near the hill which lies on the south of lower Beth-horon.
1 Kings 9:17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower Beth-horon,
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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצוּעַcouch 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָלָהto go up 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 2
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גְּבוּלborder, territory 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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In the other Testament 2 words
- κάτω kátō · G2736 · below, down
- Hebrew adjective denoting positional 'lower/lowest' in spatial hierarchies (waters, chambers, millstone) translates to Greek adverb indicating downward direction or lower position; both express vertical inferiority though Hebrew functions attributively while Greek functions adverbially.
- ὑποκάτω hypokátō · G5270 · under, on
- Hebrew תַּחְתּוֹן denotes positional inferiority in vertical spatial orientation (lower/lowest, nethermost), while Greek ὑποκάτω expresses the same spatial concept with prepositional force (down under, beneath) — both terms mark literal downward location with substantial semantic overlap in LXX spatial contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Space002002001017
- This adjective denotes a lower spatial position, as in 1 Kings 6:6's description of the lowest story of the temple being five cubits wide.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8481. tachton תַּחְתּוֺן adjective lower, lowest; — absolute ׳תּ Jos 16:3 +, feminine…
תַּחְתּוֺן adjective lower, lowest; — absolute ׳תּ Jos 16:3 +, feminine singular תֹּנָה- Isa 22:9 +, feminine plural תֹּנֹת- Eze 42:5-6, — lower, Isa 22:9 הַתּ ׳הַבְּרֵכָה the lower pool (in Jerusalem), of pavement and gate of outer (lower). temple-court Eze 40:18-19, (l. ׳השּׁ הַתַּחְתּוֺן), of lower ledge (עֲזָרְה) of altar, Eze 43:14; of the lowest of the three stories of side-chambers surrounding the temple, 1Ki 6:6 הַתּ ׳הַיָּצוּעַ, + 1Ki 6:8a (see תִּיכוֺן), Eze 41:7 (read וּמִן for וְבֵן), Eze 42:5-6, in place-name, תּ ׳בֵּיתחֹֿרוֺן Jos 16:3; Jos 18:13; 1Ki 9:17 (|| 2Ch 8:5 ׳הַתּ), הַתּ ׳בֵּיתחֹֿרוֺן 1Ch 7:24; 2Ch 8:5.
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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