תַּן
tan · H8565 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Thing
- Jackal, foxMammals27 verses
Meanings
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jackal
Animal looking like a longhaired dog with a pointed nose; yellowish brown in color with red tips to the fur on the back and a bushy tail; produces mournful sounds; used mainly in poetry and associated with death, destruction, and devastation, but also with mourning and weeping
ExamplesJob 30:29 “I have become a brother to jackals, And a companion of ostriches.
Psalm 44:19 Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with deep darkness.
Isaiah 13:22 Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come, And her days will not be prolonged.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִדְבָּרwilderness, desert 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חַיalive, living 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָלַץto arm oneself, to rescue 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 4
- לto/for 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
7 occurrences in 3 groups
- מָעוֹןdwelling place 4
- נָוֶהpasture, habitation 2
- מָקוֹםplace 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
- לִוְיָתָן livyâthân · H3882 · giant croccodile, giant sea monster
- Both words denote large aquatic creatures or monsters: leviathan and dragon or whale both refer to mythic or large sea creatures that could substitute in poetic and symbolic contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Aquatic Animals001001002004
- תַּן (tan, H8565) is a common noun meaning "jackal" (plural "jackals"), a land animal. The quotation "It will also be a haunt of jackals And a habitat of ostriches" at Isaiah 34:13 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Aquatic Animals" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תַּנִּין (tannîyn, H8577) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Small Animals001001002003
- This noun denotes the jackal, as in Isaiah 13:22's picture of jackals howling in the fortified towers of a desolated city.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8565. tan [תַּן] noun [masculine and] feminineLam 4:3 jackal (so most; TrNHB 109 ff.,…
[תַּן] noun [masculine and] feminineLam 4:3 jackal (so most; TrNHB 109 ff., 263 f. Shipley-CookEncy. Bib. JACKAL; but wolf PostHast. DB DRAGON, compare CheIsa 13:22 and (rare) Arabic ); — plural תַּנִּים Mic 1:8 +, תַּנִּין Lam 4:3 (Ges§ 87e), לְתַנּוֺת Mal 1:3 (si vera lectio; ᵐ5 Thes and others interpret = dwellings, Sta Now conjecture נְאוֺת, Marti לְ נָתַתִּי); — jackal, howling mournfully in waste places, Mic 1:8; Job 30:29 (both || יַעֲנָה בְּנוֺת), Isa 13:22 (|| אִיִּים), in desert also Isa 43:20 (|| יַעֲנָה בְּנוֺת); deserted sites called ת ׳מְעוֺן Jer 9:10; Jer 10:22; Jer 49:33; Jer 51:37, ת ׳נְוֵה Isa 34:13; Isa 35:7, ת ׳מְקוֺם Psalms; ׳ת מִדְבָּר Mal 1:3 (si vera lectio, but see above); ׳ת as snuffing up wind Jer 14:6, giving suck Lam 4:3.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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