Hebrew verb · H8474
תַּחָרָה
tacharahtakh-aw-raw'
to contend
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tachârâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8474is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8474
to vie with a rival
The King James renders it: close, contend.
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
tacharah is rendered "to contend". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 12:5“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:5תְּתַֽחֲרֶ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- competing1
- will you compete1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תַּחַת | tachath | underneath: under | Uses505 |
| תַּחְתִּי | tachti | lower | Uses19 |
| תַּחֲנוּן | tachanun | supplication | Uses18 |
| תַּחַשׁ | tachash | leather | Uses14 |
| תַּחְתּוֹן | tachton | Lower (Beth Horon) | Uses13 |
| תַּחְבֻּלָה | tachbulah | counsel | Uses6 |
| תַּחֲלוּא | tachalu | disease | Uses5 |
| תַּחְמָס | tachmas | ostrich | Uses2 |
| תַּחֲרָא | tachara | breastplate | Uses2 |
| תַּחֲנָה | tachanah | encampment | Uses1 |
| תַּחֲנִי | Tachani | Tahanite | Uses1 |
| תַּחְכְּמֹנִי | Tachkemoni | Tahchemonite | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- מְתַחֲרֶ֣ה1
- תְּתַֽחֲרֶ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · tiphil, yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVci2ms
- verb · tiphil, participle · masculine singular1HVcrmsa
Jeremiah
two uses
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
- תְּתַֽחֲרֶ֖הtetacharehverb · tiphil, yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you compete
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
- מְתַחֲרֶ֣הmetacharehverb · tiphil, participle · masculine singulartagged: competing
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.