Hebrew verb · H8505
תָּכַן
takantaw-kan'
to measure
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâkan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8505is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8505
to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test)
The King James renders it: bear up, direct, be (un-)equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.
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
takan is rendered "to measure". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
1 Samuel 2:3נִתְכְּנ֖וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it is correct5
- and weighing2
- are they correct2
- is it correct2
- has he directed1
- has he marked off1
- he has measured1
- I put in order1
- the weighed out1
- they are measured1
- weighs1
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 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- יִתָּכֵ֖ן4
- וְתֹכֵ֖ן2
- יִתָּכֵֽן׃2
- הַֽמְתֻכָּ֔ן1
- יִתָּכֵ֔ן1
- יִתָּֽכְנּוּ֙1
- יִתָּכֵֽנוּ׃1
- נִתְכְּנ֖וּ1
- תִכֵּ֥ן1
- תִּכֵּ֥ן1
- תִּכֵּ֔ן1
- תֹ֘כֵ֤ן1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular7HVNi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVpp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HC/Vqrmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVNi3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HTd/VPsmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVpp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
1 Samuel
one use
Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
- נִתְכְּנ֖וּnitkenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are measured
2 Kings
one use
Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those who supervised the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn would pay those doing the work—the carpenters, builders,
- הַֽמְתֻכָּ֔ןhamtukanthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the weighed out
Job
one use
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
- תִּכֵּ֥ןtikenverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has measured
Psalms
one use
When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
- תִכַּ֖נְתִּיtikantiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I put in order
Proverbs
three uses
All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
- וְתֹכֵ֖ןvetokhenconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and weighing
All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
- וְתֹכֵ֖ןvetokhenconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and weighing
If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
- תֹ֘כֵ֤ןtokhenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: weighs
Isaiah
two uses
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
- תִּכֵּ֔ןtikenverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he marked off
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
- תִכֵּ֥ןtikenverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he directed
Ezekiel
nine uses
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- יִתָּכֵ֖ןyitakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is correct
- יִתָּכֵ֔ןyitakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: is it correct
- יִתָּכֵֽנוּ׃yitakhenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: are they correct
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- יִתָּכֵ֖ןyitakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is correct
- יִתָּֽכְנּוּ֙yitakhenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: are they correct
- יִתָּכֵֽן׃yitakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: is it correct
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
- יִתָּכֵ֖ןyitakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is correct
- יִתָּכֵֽן׃yitakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is correct
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
- יִתָּכֵ֖ןyitakhenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is correct
The letters
Gematria 470· 1,120 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.
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.