Hebrew noun (feminine) · H931
בֹּהֶן
bohenbo'-hen
thumb/big toe
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bôhen
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H931is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H931
the thumb of the hand or great toe of the foot
The King James renders it: thumb, great toe.
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
bohen is rendered "thumb/big toe". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 29:20Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
Exodus 29:20בֹּ֤הֶן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twelve of the word's sixteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- big toe of7
- thumb of7
- thumbs of2
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 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- בֹּ֤הֶן7
- בֹּ֥הֶן7
- בְּהֹנ֥וֹת1
- בְּֽהֹנוֹת֩1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)14HNcfsc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
Exodus
two uses
Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
- בֹּ֤הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumb of
- בֹּ֥הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: big toe of
Leviticus
twelve uses
Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- בֹּ֤הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumb of
- בֹּ֥הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: big toe of
Moses also presented Aaron’s sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
- בֹּ֤הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumb of
- בֹּ֥הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: big toe of
The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- בֹּ֤הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumb of
- בֹּ֥הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: big toe of
And the priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
- בֹּ֤הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumb of
- בֹּ֥הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: big toe of
And after he slaughters the lamb for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- בֹּ֤הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumb of
- בֹּ֥הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: big toe of
The priest shall also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot—on the same places as the blood of the guilt offering.
- בֹּ֤הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumb of
- בֹּ֥הֶןbohennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: big toe of
Judges
two uses
As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
- בְּהֹנ֥וֹתbehonotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumbs of
Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- בְּֽהֹנוֹת֩behonotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thumbs of
The letters
Gematria 57· 707 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.