תִּיכוֹן
middle
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 7 times (64%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (18%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (18%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H8484 appears — 9 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 26:28 הַ/תִּיכֹ֖ן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
- Exodus 36:33 הַ/תִּיכֹ֑ן ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
Judges 1 verse
1 Kings 2 verses
- 1 Kings 6:6 וְ/הַ/תִּֽיכֹנָה֙ conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:8 הַ/תִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה הַ/תִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה הַ/תִּֽיכֹנָ֖ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
2 Kings 1 verse
Ezekiel 3 verses
- Ezekiel 41:7 לַ/תִּיכוֹנָֽה prep det + Adjective Adjective fs The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].
- Ezekiel 42:5 וּ/מֵ/הַ/תִּֽכֹנ֖וֹת conj + prep + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.
- Ezekiel 42:6 וּ/מֵ/הַ/תִּֽיכֹנ֖וֹת conj + prep + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
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, תיכון (tîykôwn) means “middle.” It first appears in Exodus 26:28. It turns up in 9 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Ezekiel (33%), then Exodus and 1 Kings. It clusters with תוך and תך under a shared root. Dig into 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8484 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 78%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 22%
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: Middle 7×
- American Standard Version: Middle 7×, Middlemost 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Central 2×, Middle 2×, Middle floors 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Middle 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8484 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8484 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H8484 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8484 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 1 sense 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.
- middle
Word origin
Derived from תוך (tâvek) (H8432) — midst.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H8484 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/תִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:8 | 2 |
| הַ/תִּֽיכֹנָ֑ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 20:4 | 1 |
| הַ/תִּֽיכֹנָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:8 | 1 |
| הַ/תִּֽיכוֹנָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 7:19 | 1 |
| הַ/תִּיכֹ֑ן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 36:33 | 1 |
| הַ/תִּיכֹ֖ן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 26:28 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/תִּֽיכֹנָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:6 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵ/הַ/תִּֽיכֹנ֖וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 42:6 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵ/הַ/תִּֽכֹנ֖וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 42:5 | 1 |
| לַ/תִּיכוֹנָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8484, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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