H2912 - טָחַן (ṭâchan)

H2912 טָחַן (ṭâchan) taw-khan'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to grind

Strong's Definition

to grind meal; hence, to be aconcubine (that being their employment)

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: grind(-er).

TWOT Reference: 802

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) (Qal) to grind, crush

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

(Qal) to grind, crush

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

טָחַן ṭâchan BDB Definition: 1) (Qal) to grind, crush Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 802 Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (8)

32:20

11:8

9:21

16:21

31:10

12:3

3:15 47:2

Exodus 32:20

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground [it] to powder, and scattered [the powder] over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

Numbers 11:8

The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes.... It tasted... like pastry baked with fine oil.

Deuteronomy 9:21

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it [and] ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Judges 16:21

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison....

Job 31:10

then may my own wife grind [grain] for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Ecclesiastes 12:3

on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Isaiah 47:2

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, [and] wade through the streams.