Hebrew verb · H8626
תָּקַן
taqantaw-kan'
be straight
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâqan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8626is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8626
to equalize, i.e. straighten (intransitive or transitive); figuratively, to compose
The King James renders it: set in order, make straight.
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
taqan is rendered "be straight". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 1:15What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Ecclesiastes 1:15לִתְקֹ֑ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he arranged in order1
- to become straight1
- to straighten1
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- לְתַקֵּ֔ן1
- לִתְקֹ֑ן1
- תִּקֵּ֖ן1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms
Ecclesiastes
three uses
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- לִתְקֹ֑ןlitkonpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to become straight
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- לְתַקֵּ֔ןletakenpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to straighten
Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
- תִּקֵּ֖ןtikenverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he arranged in order
The letters
Gematria 550· 1,200 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.