תָּ֫וֶךְ
midst
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8432 appears in the Book of Ezekiel — 104 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 1:1 בְ/תֽוֹךְ prep + n c ms cs Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:4 וּ/מִ֨/תּוֹכָ֔/הּ מִ/תּ֥וֹךְ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs prep + n c ms cs I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
- Ezekiel 1:5 וּ/מִ֨/תּוֹכָ֔/הּ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
- Ezekiel 1:16 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
- Ezekiel 2:5 בְ/תוֹכָֽ/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
- Ezekiel 3:15 בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
- Ezekiel 3:24 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
- Ezekiel 3:25 בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
- Ezekiel 5:2 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 5:4 תּ֣וֹךְ n c ms cs Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 5:5 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
- Ezekiel 5:8 בְ/תוֹכֵ֛/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
- Ezekiel 5:10 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֔/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
- Ezekiel 5:12 בְ/תוֹכֵ֔/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 6:7 בְּ/תֽוֹכְ/כֶ֑ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 6:13 בְּ/תוֹךְ֙ prep + n c ms cs You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.
- Ezekiel 7:4 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֣/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 7:9 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֣/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.
- Ezekiel 8:11 בְּ/תוֹכָ/ם֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
- Ezekiel 9:2 בְּ/תוֹכָ/ם֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
- Ezekiel 9:4 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ בְּ/ת֖וֹךְ בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/הּ prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 10:10 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.
- Ezekiel 11:1 בְ/תוֹכָ֜/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
- Ezekiel 11:7 בְּ/תוֹכָ֔/הּ מִ/תּוֹכָֽ/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 11:9 מִ/תּוֹכָ֔/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- Ezekiel 11:11 בְ/תוֹכָ֖/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
- Ezekiel 11:23 תּ֣וֹךְ n c ms cs The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
- Ezekiel 12:2 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:10 בְ/תוֹכָֽ/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.
- Ezekiel 12:12 בְּ/תוֹכָ֜/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
- Ezekiel 12:24 בְּ/ת֖וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 13:14 בְּ/תוֹכָ֔/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:8 מִ/תּ֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:9 מִ/תּ֖וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
- Ezekiel 14:14 בְּ/תוֹכָ֔/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:16 בְּ/תוֹכָ/הּ֒ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
- Ezekiel 14:18 בְּ/תוֹכָ/הּ֒ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.
- Ezekiel 14:20 בְּ/תוֹכָ/הּ֒ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
- Ezekiel 15:4 וְ/תוֹכ֣/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?
- Ezekiel 16:53 בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/הְנָה prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fp I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
- Ezekiel 17:16 בְ/תוֹךְ prep + n c ms cs As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
- Ezekiel 18:18 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
- Ezekiel 19:2 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
- Ezekiel 19:6 בְּ/תוֹךְ prep + n c ms cs He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
- Ezekiel 20:8 בְּ/ת֖וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 20:9 בְ/תוֹכָ֑/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 21:32 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 22:3 בְּ/תוֹכָ֖/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
- Ezekiel 22:7 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֑/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
- Ezekiel 22:9 בְ/תוֹכֵֽ/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
- Ezekiel 22:13 בְּ/תוֹכֵֽ/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
- Ezekiel 22:18 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
- Ezekiel 22:19 תּ֖וֹךְ n c ms cs Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:20 תּ֣וֹךְ n c ms cs As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:21 בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 22:22 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ בְ/תוֹכָ֑/הּ prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
- Ezekiel 22:25 בְּ/תוֹכָ֔/הּ בְ/תוֹכָֽ/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 22:26 בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
- Ezekiel 23:39 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
- Ezekiel 24:5 בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 24:7 בְּ/תוֹכָ֣/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
- Ezekiel 24:11 בְ/תוֹכָ/הּ֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
- Ezekiel 26:5 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
- Ezekiel 26:12 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
- Ezekiel 26:15 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֔/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
- Ezekiel 27:27 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֔/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
- Ezekiel 27:32 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
- Ezekiel 27:34 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֥/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
- Ezekiel 28:14 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 28:16 תוֹכְ/ךָ֛ מִ/תּ֖וֹךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c ms cs By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 28:18 מִ/תּֽוֹכְ/ךָ֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
- Ezekiel 28:22 בְּ/תוֹכֵ֑/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
- Ezekiel 28:23 בְּ/תוֹכָ֔/הּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 29:3 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.
- Ezekiel 29:4 מִ/תּ֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
- Ezekiel 29:12 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ בְּ/ת֨וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
- Ezekiel 29:21 בְּ/תוֹכָ֑/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 30:7 בְּ/ת֖וֹךְ בְּ/תוֹךְ prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
- Ezekiel 31:14 בְּ/ת֛וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 31:17 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
- Ezekiel 31:18 בְּ/ת֨וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 32:20 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
- Ezekiel 32:21 מִ/תּ֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
- Ezekiel 32:25 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
- Ezekiel 32:28 בְּ/ת֧וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
- Ezekiel 32:32 בְּ/ת֨וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 33:33 בְ/תוֹכָֽ/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
- Ezekiel 34:12 בְ/תוֹךְ prep + n c ms cs As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Ezekiel 34:24 בְ/תוֹכָ֑/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 36:23 בְּ/תוֹכָ֑/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
- Ezekiel 37:1 בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
- Ezekiel 37:26 בְּ/תוֹכָ֖/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
- Ezekiel 37:28 בְּ/תוֹכָ֖/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
- Ezekiel 39:7 בְּ/תוֹךְ֙ prep + n c ms cs My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
- Ezekiel 43:7 בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
- Ezekiel 43:9 בְ/תוֹכָ֖/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
- Ezekiel 44:9 בְּ/ת֖וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
- Ezekiel 46:10 בְּ/תוֹכָ֤/ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them; and when they go out, he shall go out.
- Ezekiel 47:22 בְּ/תוֹכְ/כֶ֔ם בְּ/תֽוֹכְ/כֶ֑ם בְּ/ת֖וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp prep + n c ms cs It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
- Ezekiel 48:8 בְּ/תוֹכֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:10 בְּ/תוֹכֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:15 ב/תוכ/ה בְּ/תוֹכֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:21 ב/תוכ/ה בְּ/תוֹכֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:22 בְּ/ת֛וֹךְ prep + n c ms cs Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“midst” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun תוך (tâvek). Translators differ — “midst” in the King James Version, then “midst of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 390 verses across 27 books, a common footprint. It concentrates in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 27% of its uses. Catalogued under 5 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8432 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 390
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 390 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #119
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 119 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 390 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 390 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 221 verses · 57%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 123 verses · 32%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 46 verses · 12%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Midst 170×, Among 118×, Within 17×
- American Standard Version: Midst 154×, Among 83×, Within 17×
- Berean Standard Bible: Among 83×, Among them 30×, Middle 30×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Midst of 135×, Midst 92×, Middle of 28×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8432 across 411 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 47 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8432 across 407 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 71 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8432 across 379 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 38 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8432 across 404 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 51 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 5 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- midst, middle
- into, through (after verbs of motion)
- among (of a number of persons)
- between (of things arranged by twos)
- from among (as to take or separate etc)
Word origin
subst. midst (NH id., also denom. תִּוֵּוךְ; √ unknown; not apparently in cognate languages);—abs. תָּ֫וֶךְ Gn 15:10 +; cstr. תּוֹךְ 1:6 +; תּוֹכִי, תּוֹכוֹ, etc., 2 fs. תּוֹכֵ֫כִי †ψ 116:19; 135:9, תּוֹכֹה †Ez 48:15, 2f, תּוֹכֲכֶם Gn 23:9 +, תּוֹכָ֑הְנָה † Ez 16:53 (Ges§ 91 f);—midst, whether of a space or place, a number of people or things, or of a line: abs. †Ju 16:29 עַמּוּדֵי הַתָּוֶךְ = the middle columns, Je 39:3 שַׁעַר הַתּ׳, בַּתָּוֶךְ Gn 15:10 וַיְבַתֵּר אֹתָם בַּתּ׳, Nu 35:5 וְהָעִיר בַּתָּוֶךְ, Jos 8:22 Ju 15:4 Is 66:17 אַחַר אֶחָד בַּתָּוֶךְ; cstr. 1 K 8:64 קִדַּשׁ הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶת־ תּוֹךְ הֶחָצֵר, Ez 15:4 וְתוֹכוֹ נָחָר; usually c. prep., as בְּ (often = an emph. in, in the very heart and midst of), Gn 1:6 בְּתוֹךְ הַמַּיִם, 2:9 בְּת׳ הַגָּן, 9:21 בְּת׳ אָהֳלֹה, 18:24 בְּת׳ הָעִיר, 37:7 בְּת׳ הַשָּׂדֶה, Ex 11:4 אני יוצא בת׳ מצרים, 39:3, Jos 8:9 בְּת׳ הָעָם, Ju 7:16 בת׳ הַכַּדִּים, 1 K 3:20 בְּת׳ הַלַּיְלָה; בְּתוֹכָהּ (of land or city) Nu 13:32 Is 7:6, etc.; in Ez בְּתוֹכֵךְ, בְּתוֹכָהּ, etc., of sins done, or judgment to be wrought, in the very midst of Jerusalem, Ez 5:8, 10; 9:4; 22:3, 7, 9, 13 +; בְּת׳ מֵעַי ψ 22:15, 40:9 תּוֹרָֽתְךָ בְּת׳ מֵעָ֑י, בְּת׳ לִבִּי v 11, cf. Pr 4:21; after verbs of motion, = into Ex 14:27 1 S 9:14, = through Ex 14:29; Nu 33:8; Ez 9:4; Ne 9:11; of a number of persons = among (not necess. of the actual middle), Gn 40:20 בְּת׳ עֲבָדָיו, בְּתוֹכֵנוּ 23:6, בְּתוֹכָם 1 S 10:10; Jb 1:6, etc., הַגָּר בְּתוֹכֲכֶם Lv 17:8, 10, 13 +; = between (of things arranged by twos) Ex 39:25; in P often (12 times) of the divine presence, or dwelling, in the midst of Isr., Ex 25:8; 29:45, 46; Lv 15:31; 16:16 + (CarpenterHex. i. 209, ed. 2, 410; JED in such cases have always קֶרֶב), so Ez 37:26, 28; 43:7, 9, cf. Hg. 2:5; מִן, as Gn 19:29 מִתּוֹךְ הַהֲפֵכָה, Ex 3:2 מִתּ׳ הַסְּנֶה, 33:11 לֹא יָמִישׁ מִתּ׳ הָאֹהֶל, Dt 4:12 + מִתּ׳ הָאֵשׁ, 1 S 15:6 רְדוּ מִתּ׳ עֲמָלֵק; = from among, as to take, separate, etc., מִתּוֹכָם, מִתּ׳ הָעָם, etc., Ex 7:5; 28:1; Nu 3:12; 4:2, 18; 16:21, 33; 17:10; 19:20 (all P) +; אֶל, as Ex 14:23 ויבאו … אֶל־תּוֹךְ הַיָּם, Lv 11:33; Nu 17:12 וַיָּרָץ אֶל־תּ׳ הַקָּהָל, 19:6 Dt 21:12 וַהֲבֵאתָהּ אֶל־תּ׳ בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ, 22:2; 23:11; 2 S 3:27; Je 21:4 +; עַד 2 S 4:6; מֵעַל †Ez 11:23.—תוך is used by most writers, occ. c. 8–10 times in many books, but is especially frequent in P (c. 106 times) and Ez (116 times). Syn. קֶרֶב, q.v.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תָּוֶוךְ
- (b. h.) middle. Num. R. s. 149 כנגד שני עמודי הת׳ אשר הפיל corresponding to the two middle pillars which he (Samson) pulled down. Y. Erub. V, 22ᶜ שער הת׳ the Middle Gate, name of a Temple gate.—V. תּוֹךְ.
תָּוֶךְ
- , v. תָּוֶוךְ, a. תּוֹךְ II.
תָּוַךְ
- , Pi. תִּוֵּוךְ, v. תִּוֵּוךְ.
תּוֹךְ I
- tokh, the sound of boiling. Ber. 39ᵃ יתיב … ועביד ת׳ ת׳ it stands on the stove and makes tokh tokh (boils thoroughly); Erub. 29ᵃ. Pes. 74ᵃ ר"י קוריהו ת׳ ת׳ R. J. called it (the kid roasted with its loose pieces inside) tokh tokh (boiled); v., however, תַּכְבְּרָא.
תּוֹךְ II
- , constr. תּוֹךְ)
- 1. middle, inside, receptacle. Kel. XXVII, 1 כל שאין לו ת׳ וכ׳ earthen vessels which have no inside (receptacle), have no back, i.e. their back is not susceptible of levitical uncleanness. Ib. XXV, 2. Ib. 4 כלי שנטמאו … לא נטמא תוֹכוֹ if the outside of a vessel has become unclean, its inside is not affected thereby. Yoma 72ᵇ, v. בַּר I; a. fr.—Pl. תּוֹכוֹת. Gitt. 20ᵃ חק ת׳, v. חָקַק.
- 2. (prep.) in, into, within. Nidd. 45ᵇ ת׳ זמן within the period (during the year of developing puberty); B. Bath. 155ᵇ. Ib. 5ᵃ פרעתיך בת׳ זמני I paid thee within my appointed time (before the debt was due). Dem. VII, 5 בת׳ ביתו in his house. Kil. I, 8 לת׳ האבטיח into a melon; a. v. fr.–ת׳ כדי דיבור, v. דַּי.—מִתּ׳ immediately from, through, because of. Ber. V, 1 מת׳ כובד ראש in a mood of humility, v. כּוֹבֶד. Ib. 31ᵃ אין … לא מת׳ דין וכ׳ you must not rise for prayer immediately after giving judgment, or after an undecided discussion &c. Ib. מת׳ עצבות from a mood of grief. Pes. 50ᵇ מת׳ שלא לשמה, v. שֵׁם; Naz. 23ᵇ.—Shebu. 32ᵇ, a. fr. מת׳ שאינו יכול לישבע וכ׳ because he cannot make oath, he must pay. Bets. 12ᵃ, a. e. מת׳ שהותרה הוצאה וכ׳ since carrying for an immediate need (on the Holy Bay) has once been permitted, it has also been permitted for a less immediate need; a. v. fr.
תּוּךְ
- to press, make to suffer, punish, v. תְּכַךְ I.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 108 distinct written forms H8432 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 48 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8432, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 368 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 390 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:6
- Exodus 2:5
- Leviticus 11:33
- Numbers 1:47
- Deuteronomy 3:16
- Joshua 3:17
- Judges 7:16
- 1 Samuel 7:3
- 2 Samuel 1:25
- 1 Kings 3:8
- 2 Kings 4:13
- 1 Chronicles 11:14
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
