תְּקַן
to be established
‘to be established’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8627 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew verb תקן centers on the idea of “to be established.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Daniel (100%). Its lone occurrence is Daniel 4:36. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8627 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.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
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 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: I was established 1×
- American Standard Version: I was established 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: I was restored 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I was reestablished 1×
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Renders H8627 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8627 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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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.
- to be in order
- (Hophal) to be established, be reestablished, confirm
Word origin
[ תְּקַן ] vb. be in order;— Hoph. Dn 4:33
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תקן (tâqan) (H8626) — to make straight.
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.
תָּקַן
- v. קָנַן a. to make straight, firm, right.
- same,
- 1. to straighten, mend, repair, set in order, prepare. Sifré Deut. 308 אחד … לתַקְּנוֹ one that had a crooked staff, and gave it to a mechanic to straighten it; מְתַקְּנוֹ באור he tries to straighten it by heat; Yalk. ib. 942. Shek. I, 1 מְתַקְּנִין את הדרכים וכ׳ they put in repair the roads and the open places (stations) &c. Pesik. R. s. 28 מְתַקְּנִים את המועדות they arrange (fix the dates of) the festivals; R. Hash. I, 4. Bets. 34ᵃ אין מתקנין את השפוד וכ׳ you must not prepare (chip) a spit or sharpen it (on the Holy Day). Ib. מתקנין את הקונדס וכ׳ you may dress artichokes &c. Gitt. IV, 5 תִּקַּנְתֶּם את רבו וכ׳ you have made it right for his master but not for himself; a. fr.—Trnsf. to make things legally fit for use by giving the priestly dues. Bets. 34ᵇ עבר ותִקְּנוֹ מְתוּקָּן if he transgressed (the law forbidding the separation of priestly gifts on the Holy Day) and prepared it for use, it is prepared (the act is valid). Y. Dem. II, 23ᶜ bot. כל אחד ואחד מְתַקֵּן דמאי every one of them gives the priestly dues of his purchase as d’mai (v. דְּמַאי). Tosef. Dem. IV, 5 ודאי שתִּיקְּנָהּ דמאי if one gives the dues of what is sure to be untithed, as if it were d’mai; a. fr.
- 2. to establish, institute, introduce a legal measure, ordain. Sabb. 33ᵇ תִּקְּנוּ שווקים וכ׳, v. שׁוּק III. Ib. bot. (ref. to Gen. XXXIII, 18) מטבע תי׳ להם he introduced coinage for them. Meg. 4ᵃ, a. e. משה ת׳ להם … שיהו וכ׳ Moses introduced the custom … of discussing and studying the subject of the day &c. Sabb. 14ᵇ שמעון … ת׳ כתובה וכ׳ Simon ben Sheṭaḥ introduced the marriage contract (jointure) for the wife. Succ. V, 2, v. תִּיקּוּן; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. מְתוּקָּן; f. מְתוּקֶּנֶת; pl. מְתוּקָּנִים, מְתוּקָּנִין; מְתוּקָּנוֹת a) properly prepared, proper, good, right. Bets. 34ᵇ, v. supra. Erub. 32ᵃ, a. e. חזקה … דבר שאינו מת׳ the presumption is in favor of the Ḥaber (חָבֵר) that he will not let go out of his hands a thing not ritually prepared (tithed &c.). Tosef. Dem. IV, 8 הטבל והמת׳ שנתערבו if untithed and tithed things have been mixed up. Ib. VIII, 13 מעשרותיו מת׳ ופירותיו מקולקלין the tithes he separated are right, but his fruits are wrong (considered untithed). Ib. VI, 14 מת׳ scrupulous guardsmen. Snh. 39ᵇ כמת׳ שבהם וכ׳, v. קִלְקֵל; a. fr.—b) prepared, predestined, designated. Pesik. R. s. 27-28 לצרה הזו הייתי מת׳ am I predestined for such trouble? Ib. עד … היית מת׳ לדבר (not הייתי) before yet the world was created, thou wast designated for this thing (the prophetic mission). Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 13 שהוא מת׳ מבראשית וכ׳ that he (Bezalel) was from the time of creation designated to make the Tabernacle; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 33:18
- 1. to prepare, fit. Ab. II, 12 הַתְקֵן עצמך ללמוד וכ׳ fit thyself to study the Law, for it does not come to thee by inheritance. Ib. IV, 16, v. פְּרוֹזְדוֹר; a. e.
- 2. to ordain, establish a custom, innovate. Succ. 51ᵇ הִתְקִינוּ שיהו וכ׳ they ordained that the women should sit uptairs, and the men below. Shebi. X, 3, v. פְּרוֹזְבּוֹל. Y. R. Hash. IV, 59ᵇ bot. מַתְקִין על דבר תורה introduced a measure extending a Biblical law; מתקין על דבריהן extending a Rabbinical ordinance. Ber. IX, 5 התקינו שיהו וכ׳ they ordained that they should say, ‘from everlasting and unto everlasting’; a. fr.
- to be straightened, mended, improved. Koh. R. to I, 15 יכול להִתָּקֵן (or להִתַּקֵּן Hithpa.), v. עָוַת. Ber. 40ᵃ בדבר … בו נִתְקְנוּ (or נִתַּקְּנוּ Nithpa.) they were mended (restored) by the same thing by which they were impaired (sinned); Snh. 70ᵇ; a. e.
תְּקֵן
- , to be firm, stand (corresp. to b. h. כּוּן, כָּנן). Targ. Ps. XC, 17 יִתְקְנַן ed. Ven. (Ms. יְתַקְנַן; ed. Wil. יִתּקְּנוּן Ithpa.). Targ. Prov. XXII, 18 נִיתְקְנִין (ed. Wil. נִתּקְּנוּן Ithpa.).
- 1. to establish. Targ. Ps. IX, 8. Ib. LXXIV, 16 Ms. (ed. Af.). Targ. Is. LXII, 7. Targ. II Sam. VII, 12; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְתַקַּן. Targ. Jud. XVI, 26 (not קֵן …). Targ. Ps. LXXXIX, 38 (ed. Lag. מִיתַּקַּן Ithpa.); a. e.
- 2. to prepare, arrange, set in order; to improve, do a thing properly. Targ. Is. XL, 13 (h. text תכן). Targ. O. Ex. XVI, 5. Targ. Prov. VI, 8. Targ. Ps. XI, 2; a. e.—[Targ. O. Deut. XXII, 5, read with ed. Berl. יִתָּקַן.]—Part. pass. as ab. Targ. Ez. XVI, 13 (not קֵן …). Ib. XVIII, 12; a. fr.—Keth. 112ᵃ bot. מְתַקֵּן מתקליה repaired its offences (dangerous places on the road to Palestine); Yalk. Ps. 855. Tam. 27ᵇ תַּקֵּין נפשך put thyself in order (regulate thy bowels). Sabb. 33ᵇ איזיל אֲתַקֵּין מילתא I will go and remedy something (do something to benefit the community). Ib. איכא מילתא דבעי לתַקּוּנֵי is there anything that requires to be remedied? Zeb. 15ᵃ אפשר לתַקּוּנָהּ it can be remedied. Ib. 76ᵇ תַּקּוּנֵי גברא שאני when a person is to be made fit (restored from a disqualification), we make an exception; Men. 105ᵇ. Keth. 85ᵃ, a. fr. לתקוני שדרתיך, v. עֲוַת; a. fr.—Esp. to make fit for use by separating the priestly gifts. Gen. R. s. 60 תַּקְּנַת אילין וכ׳ hast thou tithed those figs? Ib. תַּקַּנְתּוּהוּ have you tithed it (the barley)?; a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. Ib. אפשר … דלא מְתַקְּנַן is it possible that R. Z. should have eaten of them when they were not tithed?; a. fr.
- 3. to introduce, ordain, innovate, reform. Ber. 33ᵇ אי לאו … ותַקְּנִינְהוּ בתפלה וכ׳ were it not that Moses had said them (the words, ‘O God, great, mighty and terrible’), and the men of the Great Assembly had come and introduced them in the prayers, we could not dare to say them. Ib. תמני סרי תַּקּוּן וכ׳ eighteen benedictions they have ordained, nineteen they have not. Ib. 40ᵇ ברכה דלא תַקִּינוּ רבנן a benediction which the Rabbis have not introduced. B. Bath. 90ᵇ רב פפא … ת׳ כיילא וכ׳ Rab Papa … introduced a measure of three Ḳ’fizas. Ib. אנא … תַּקִּינִי I have introduced a new measure; a. v. fr.
- 1. to establish. Targ. Prov. III, 19. Targ. Is. XXX, 33; a. e.
- 2. to prepare, arrange, set in order &c. (v. Pa.).). Targ. Num. X, 33. Targ. Gen. XLIII, 16. Targ. Ex. XXX, 7; a. fr.
- 3. to introduce, ordain, innovate, reform. R. Hash. 34ᵃ איתקין ר׳ אבהו וכ׳ (read: אַתְ׳; Ms. M. הִתְקִין Hebr.) R. A. introduced the custom in Cæsaræa of sounding one T’ḳiʿah, three notes of Sh’barim, and one T’ḳiʿah. Ib. מאי א׳ what has he improved (what has he achieved with his ordinance)? Gitt. 86ᵃ א׳ רב יהודה וכ׳ Rab Judah introduced the formula for the sale of slaves: ‘this slave &c.’ Y. Ḥag. I, 76ᶜ ר׳ יודה … למַתְקְנָא לון וכ׳ (or למְתַקְּנָא, Pa.) R. Judah the Nasi sent out R. Ḥ…, that they should pass the towns … to institute teachers of Bible and of Mishnah for them; Midr. Till. to Ps. CXXVII; Lam. R. introd., beg. דיפקון ויַתְקְנוּן קרייתא וכ׳ (or ויתַקְּנוּן) that they should go and improve (the education of) the towns in Palestine; a. fr.
- ; Ithpe. אִיתְּקֵין, אִיתְ׳
- 1. to be established, confirmed; to be prepared, arranged. Targ. I Kings II, 46. Targ. Prov. XII, 19. Ib. XIX, 29 (ed. Wil. מְתַ׳, part. pass. Pa.); a. fr.
- 2. to be prepared, dressed; to dress, adorn one’s self. Targ. Hos. II, 15. Targ. II Esth. V, 1; a. fr.
- 3. to be instituted, ordained. B. Kam. 82ᵃ עזרא תיקן … מִיתַּקְּנָא Ezra introduced this? was it not introduced before that (by Moses)?; a. e.
תִּקָּן
- , v. תִּיקּוּן
תַּקֵּן
- , v. תַּקִּין
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.
