Hebrew verb · H2912
טָחַן
tachantaw-khan'
to grind
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭâchan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2912is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2912
to grind meal; hence, to be aconcubine (that being their employment)
The King James renders it: grind(-er).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tachan is rendered "to grind". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 32:20Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.
Exodus 32:20וַיִּטְחַ֖ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- grinding2
- and grind1
- and he ground1
- and they ground1
- let her grind1
- the grinders1
- you grind1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַטֹּֽחֲנוֹת֙1
- וְטָחֲנ֣וּ1
- וְטַ֣חֲנִי1
- וַיִּטְחַ֖ן1
- טוֹחֵ֖ן1
- טָחוֹן֙1
- תִּטְחַ֣ן1
- תִּטְחָ֑נוּ1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HC/Vqv2fs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HTd/Ncfpa
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Exodus
one use
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.
- וַיִּטְחַ֖ןvaiyitchanHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he ground
Numbers
one use
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
- וְטָחֲנ֣וּvetachanuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they ground
Deuteronomy
one use
And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
- טָחוֹן֙tachonverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: grinding
Judges
one use
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
- טוֹחֵ֖ןtochenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: grinding
Job
one use
then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
- תִּטְחַ֣ןtitchanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: let her grind
Ecclesiastes
one use
on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
- הַטֹּֽחֲנוֹת֙hatochanotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the grinders
Isaiah
two uses
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- תִּטְחָ֑נוּtitchanuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you grind
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- וְטַ֣חֲנִיvetachaniconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and grind
The letters
Gematria 67· 717 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.