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תּוֹקַהַת

Tikvah

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Tikvah’ fuller range ↓

H8445 Strong's Hebrew
Tôwqahath Transliteration
/to-kah'-ath/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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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.

At its core, תוקהת (Tôwqahath) means “Tikvah.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to 2 Chronicles (100%). It occurs only once, in 2 Chronicles 34:22. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Tikvath
Modern gloss
Tikvah
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H8445 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
2 Chronicles 34:22
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in 2 Chronicles 34:22.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%

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: not separately translated
  • Berean Standard Bible: Tokhath 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tokhath 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Does not render H8445 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H8445 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Tokhath” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H8445 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Tokhath” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 2 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.

  1. Tikvath or Tikvah = "hope"
  2. father of Shallum, the husband of the prophetess Huldah in the time of king Josiah of Judah

Word origin

Derived from יקהה (yiqqâhâh) (H3349) — obedience.

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H8445 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.

Form Parsing Example Uses
תָּקְהַ֗ת Noun, Proper 2 Chronicles 34:22 1
תוקהת Noun, Proper 2 Chronicles 34:22 1

Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Tikvah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(hope).

+ The father of Shallum the husband of the prophetess Huldah. (2 Kings 22:14) (B.C. before 632.) + The father of Jahaziah. (Ezra 10:15)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

hope; a little line; congregation

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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