Word

תְּקוּפָה

tᵉqûwphâh · H8622 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

Location where the sun has reached the end of its circuit and from where it is expected to move back to its beginning point (turning point (of the sun))

Examples
Psalm 19:6 Its rising is from one end of the heavens, And its circuit to the other end of them; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
Literally: turning point of the year; hence: time when the year has reached its end and when the new year begins (end (of year))

Examples
Exodus 34:22 “And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
2 Chronicles 24:23 Now it happened at the turn of the year that the army of the Arameans came up against Joash; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoils to the king of Damascus.
after some time, in due time

Literally: turning point of days; hence: time when a given period has reached its end

Examples
1 Samuel 1:20 It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him of the LORD.”

How it’s used In 3 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

4 occurrences in 3 groups

שָׁנֶהyear 2
יוֹםday, time 1
הוּhis 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָצָהedge 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 4

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

עֵת ʻêth · H6256 · time, moment, period: Hebrew noun for time or season; can substitute for תְּקוּפָה in contexts referring to a particular time period or season, though עֵת is more general and less specifically cyclical.

In the other Testament 2 words

χρόνος chrónos · G5550 · time, period of time, occasion: Greek noun for time or period; can serve as translation equivalent when תְּקוּפָה denotes a span or appointed time, though χρόνος is broader and less specifically cyclical.
καιρός kairós · G2540 · time, occasion, period of time: Greek noun for appointed time or season; translates תְּקוּפָה when referring to the end/completion of a temporal period or seasonal cycle.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Move002002001012: This noun denotes a circuit traveled, as in Psalm 19:6's picture of the sun's rising from one end of the heavens and its circuit to the other end.
Time002002002010: The noun also denotes a recurring point in the year, as in Exodus 34:22's instruction to celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָקַף nâqaph · H5362 · to strip off, to cut off, to remove · 19×תְּקוּפָהtᵉqûwphâh · H8622נֹקֶף nôqeph · H5363 · beating (a tree to harvest its fruits) · 2×נִקְפָּה niqpâh · H5364 · rope · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8622. tequphah [תְּקוּפָה] noun feminine coming round, circuit; — construct הַשָּׁנָה…

H8622. tequphah
[תְּקוּפָה] noun feminine coming round, circuit; — construct הַשָּׁנָה תְּקוּפַת Exo 34:22 (JE), adverb, at the circuit (completion) of the year, so ׳לִת הַשָּׁנָה2Chron 24:33; = plural construct הַיָּמִים לִתְקֻפוֺת 1Sa 1:20; singular suffix of finished circuit of sun Psa 19:7 (opposed to מוֺצָאוֺ; compare of moon, בתקופתו Ecclus 43:7).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Move1 occurrence Time3 occurrences

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