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Lexicon :: Strong's H8478 - taḥaṯ

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תַּחַת
Transliteration
taḥaṯ
Pronunciation
takh'-ath
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Part of Speech
proper patrial adjective, accusative adverb, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as תּוֹחַ (H8430)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2504

Strong’s Definitions

תַּחַת tachath, takh'-ath; from the same as H8430; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.:—as, beneath, × flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, × unto, × when...was mine, whereas, (where-) fore, with.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's H8478 in the following manner: instead, under, for, as, with, from, flat, in the same place.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's H8478 in the following manner: instead, under, for, as, with, from, flat, in the same place.

  1. the under part, beneath, instead of, as, for, for the sake of, flat, unto, where, whereas

    masculine noun

    1. the under part

      accusative adverb

    2. beneath

      preposition

    3. under, beneath

      1. at the foot of (idiom)

      2. sweetness, subjection, woman, being burdened or oppressed (fig)

      3. of subjection or conquest

    4. what is under one, the place in which one stands

      1. in one's place, the place in which one stands (idiom with reflexive pronoun)

      2. in place of, instead of (in transferred sense)

      3. in place of, in exchange or return for (of things mutually interchanged)

        conjunction

    5. instead of, instead of that

    6. in return for that, because that

      in compounds

    7. in, under, into the place of (after verbs of motion)

    8. from under, from beneath, from under the hand of, from his place, under, beneath

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תַּחַת tachath, takh'-ath; from the same as H8430; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.:—as, beneath, × flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, × unto, × when...was mine, whereas, (where-) fore, with.
STRONGS H8478: Abbreviations
תַּחַת noun [masculine] the under part (Arabic bdb106502 id.), hence as adverb accusative andpreposition underneath, below, instead of (so Arabic bdb106503, Sabean תחת, Ethiopic bdb106504 Phoenician תחת (Lzb385); Biblical Aramaic Targum, תְּחוֺת, Palmyrene in מן לתחת Tariff 1:4 (Cooke320), Syriac bdb106505); —
I. as adverb accusative † † Genesis 49:25 (= Deuteronomy 33:13) the deep רֹבֶצֶת תָּ֑חַת that coucheth beneath; more usually with מִן, מִתָּחַת literally off (מִן 1c) the under part = beneath, † Exodus 20:4 (= Deuteronomy 5:8) בָּאָרֶץ מִתָּ֑חַת (so Deuteronomy 4:39; Joshua 2:11; Kings 8:23 [both D2], Isaiah 51:6), Deuteronomy 33:27; Judges 7:8; Amos 2:9; Isaiah 14:9; Job 18:16; Ezekiel 47:1b
II. as preposition; so construct, and with suffix (usually in the plural, and so literally in the parts underneath) תַּחְתַּי Habakkuk 3:16+, חַתֵּנִי (compare בַּעֲדֵנִי, עוֺדֶנִּי : Ges§ 103 d) † 2 Samuel 22:37, 40, 48 (Psalm 18:37; 18:40; 18:48 תַּחְתָּ֑י); תַּחְתֶּיךָ; תַּחְתָּיו (Kt תַּחְתּוֺ † 2 Samuel 2:23; 2 Samuel 3:12; 2 Samuel 16:8; Job 9:13), תֵּחְתֶּיהָ Leviticus 13:23 + 16 times, תַּחְתֶּ֫נָּה (compare אֵינֶנָּה, עוֺדֶנָּה) † Genesis 2:21; תַּחְתֵּינוּ † 1 Samuel 14:9; Psalm 47:4; תַּחְתֵּיהֶם † Joshua 2:14; Amos 2:13; תַּחְתֵּיהֶם † Numbers 16:31; 1 Kings 20:24; 1 Chronicles 4:41; 1 Chronicles 5:22; 2 Chronicles 12:10 (for תַּחְתָּם 1 Kings 14:27), תַּחְתָּם Deuteronomy 2:12 + 10 times, תַּחְתֵּקהֶן †Jeremiah 28:13; —
1. under, beneath, Genesis 7:19 הַשָּׁמַיִם תַּחַת כָּלֿ under the whole heaven (so † Deuteronomy 2:25; Deuteronomy 4:19; Job 28:24; Job 37:3; Job 41:3; Daniel 9:12), Genesis 18:4 הָעֵץ ת׳, Genesis 21:15; Genesis 24:2 + often; Job 30:14 שׁוֺאָה תּ׳ under the crash they roll themselves against me; הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ ת׳ Ecclesiastes 1:3, 9, 13 + often. — Ecclesiastes (so in Phoenician, Cooke4. 7; 5. 12). With לְ † 2 Chronicles 4:3 תַּחַת לוֺ, Songs 2:6 = Songs 8:3 לְראֹשִׁי ת׳. Idiomatic
a. תַּחַת הָהָר at the foot of the mountain, Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:11, so Deuteronomy 3:17 ת׳ הַפִּסְגָה אַשְׁדֹּת Joshua 11:3, 17 +; figurative Psalm 18:37 תַּחְתָּ֑י תַּרְחִיד אְעָדַי thou broadenest mysteps under me, Job 36:16 רַחַב לאֹ מוּצָק תַּחְתֶּיךָ (so read for תחתיה, Di Bu) breadth unstraitened is beneath thee.
b. הַלָּשׁוֺן ת׳, of something held there as a dainty morsel, and ready, when needed, to be brought out, figurative of sweetness Songs 4:11, of evil Psalm 10:7 לְשֹׁנוֺ עָמָל וָאָוֶן ת׳, Job 20:12 (so שְׁפָתֵימוֺ ת׳ Psalm 140:4), of praise Psalm 66:17 לְשֹׁנוֺ וְרוֺמַם ת׳ (synonym בִּגְרוֺנָם Psalm 149:6).
c. תַּחַת פ׳ :
(a) of subjection, Psalm 18:40 תַּחְתָּ֑י תַּכְּ רִיעַ קָמַי, Psalm 18:48 (compare Psalm 47:4; Psalm 144:2), Psalm 45:6; Job 9:13.
(b) of a woman, אִישָׁתּ ת׳, i.e. under his authority, Numbers 5:19, 20, 29, so Ezekiel 23:5 תַּחְתַּי being under me = being mine (figurative of Israel as י׳'s spouse), compare ὕπανδρος Romans 7:2, and bdb106506 Kor 66:10.
(c) of being burdened or oppressed under, Isaiah 24:5 the earth יָֽשְׁבֶיהָ הָֽנְפָה ת׳, Proverbs 30:21 שָׁלוֺשׁ רָגְזָה אֶרֶץ ת׳, Proverbs 30:22; Proverbs 30:23; Habakkuk 3:7 אָיֶן ת׳ i.e. (si vera lectio) suffering under calamity.
d. יַד פ׳ ת׳, of authority or control, Genesis 41:35 פַּרְעֹה יַד ח׳ בָר וְיִצְבְּרוּ Judges 3:30 (compare Psalm 106:42), 1 Samuel 21:4; 1 Samuel 21:5 (strike out אֶל; dittograph חֹל), 1 Samuel 21:9; Isaiah 3:6.
e. רַגְלֵי פ׳ ת׳, of subjection or conquest, Psalm 8:7 רַגְלָיו כֹּל שַׁתָּה ת׳, Psalm 18:39; Psalm 47:4; Lamentations 3:34, compare Malachi 3:31.
2. what is under one, the place in which one stands: hence as accusative,
a. with reflexive pronoun, idiomatic, in one's place, where one stands, Exodus 16:29 תַּחְתָּיו שְׁבוּ אִישׁ abide every one in his place, Leviticus 13:23, 28; Joshua 5:8; Joshua 6:5, 20; Judges 7:21; 1 Samuel 14:9 וְעָמַדְנוּ תַחְתֵּינוּ we will remain where we are, 2 Samuel 2:23 וַיָּמָת תַּחְתָּו he died where he was (compare Jeremiah 38:9 [read וּמֵת]), Jeremiah 7:10; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 46:7; Amos 2:13; Habakkuk 3:16 וְתַחְתַּי אֶרְגָּ֑ז I tremble where I stand, Zechariah 12:6; Zechariah 14:10; Job 36:20; Job 40:12 תַּחְתָּם
b. in transferred sense, in place of, instead of:
(a) Genesis 2:18; Genesis 4:25 הֶבֶל ת׳ instead of Abel, Genesis 22:13 בְּנוֺ ת׳, Genesis 30:2 אלהיס אנכי הֲת׳ (compare Genesis 50:19), Genesis 44:33; 2 Samuel 19:1 + often; Job 16:4; Isaiah 3:24; Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah 61:3, 7; of one succeeding to the place of another, תַּחְתָּיו וַיִּמְחֹ Genesis 36:33-49 1 Kings 8:20; 1 Kings 11:43; 1 Kings 14:20 + often, Deuteronomy 2:12, 21 וַיֵָּֽשְׁבוּ תַחְתָּם, Leviticus 16:32; 1 Kings 2:35 +; Psalm 45:17 in place of thy fathers (whom thou mayest therefore forget) will be thy children. compare in Ph CISi.3.9 (Cooke30). Sq. infinitive Isaiah 60:15 הֱיוֺתֵח ת׳ instead of thy being... Peculiarly Job 34:26 (si vera lectio)= as if they were, like; but text very dubious; Bi Bu תָּחֵת חֲמָתוֺ רְשָׁעִ֑ים his wrath breaketh in pieces the wicked.
(b) in particular, of things mutually interchanged, in place of, in exchange or return for: Genesis 30:15 דּוּדָאֵי בְנֵח ת׳ in return, for thy son's love-apples, Exodus 21:23) גֶפְשׁ life for life, Exodus 21:24; Exodus 21:25; Exodus 21:26; Exodus 21:27; Exodus 21:36; Exodus 22:37, Joshua 2:14 נַפְשֵׁנוּ תַחְתֵּיכֶם לָמוּת, 1 Samuel 2:20; 1 Kings 20:39 נפשׁו נפשׁך ת׳, 1 Kings 20:42 (compare 2 Kings 10:24), 2 Kings 21:2; Isaiah 43:3, 4; often with verbs of requiting, Genesis 44:4 טוֺבָם לָ֫מּה שִׁלַּמְתֶּם רָעָה ת׳ why have ye rewarded evil in exchange for good ? 1 Samuel 25:21; 2 Samuel 16:12; 2 Samuel 19:22; Psalm 35:12 טוֺבָה יְשַׁלְּמוּנִי דָעָה ת׳, Psalm 38:21a; Psalm 109:4; Psalm 109:5; Proverbs 17:3 +; Jeremiah 5:19 תַּחַת מֶה in return for what? (compare עַלמֶֿה Jeremiah 22:8; Deuteronomy 29:23; 1 Kings 9:8). So followed by infinitive Psalm 38:21b.
†3. as conjunction:
a. תַּחַת אֲשֶׁר:
(a) instead of that (German. anstatt dass), Deuteronomy 28:62 הֱיִיתֶם א׳ ת׳ instead of that ye were..., instead of your being..., Ezekiel 36:34.
(b) in return for (the fact) that, because that (Greek Version of the LXX ἀνθ’ ὧν Amos 1:3 + often), Numbers 25:13 אֲשֶׁר קִנָּא לא׳ ת׳, Deuteronomy 21:14; Deuteronomy 22:29; Deuteronomy 28:47; 1 Samuel 26:21; 2 Kings 22:17 2 Chronicles 34:25; Isaiah 53:12; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 50:7; 2 Chronicles 21:12.
b. תַּחַת כִּי Deuteronomy 4:37 (but ? read : וֶַֽֽֽתּחִי as end of Deuteronomy 4:36), Proverbs 1:29. compare (כִּי) אֲשֶׁר עֵקֶב.
III. compounds: —
†1. אֶלתַּֿחַת, after a verb of motion:
a. (in) under, Judges 6:19 וַיּוֺצֵא אֶלֿ הָאֵלָה ת׳, 1 Kings 8:6 (|| 2 Chronicles 5:7), Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 38:11 (on 1 Samuel 21:5 see II. 1 d); after קָרָא Zechariah 3:10: so לְ׳ אֶלתֿ׳ Ezekiel 10:2.
b. into the place of, Leviticus 14:42.
2. מִתַּחַת (= ὑπ’ ἐκ):
a. alone, from under, from beneath as מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם † Genesis 1:7, and especially after such verbs as שִׁחֵת Genesis 6:17, מָחֶה Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 9:14; Deuteronomy 25:19; Deuteronomy 29:19; 2 Kings 14:27, הֶאֲבִיד Deuteronomy 7:24, compare Lamentations 3:66; Ezekiel 47:1a מִמְּתַּן מִתּ׳ הַבַּיִת, Proverbs 22:27 לָ֫מָּה יִקַח מִשְׁכָּֽבְּךָ מִּתַּחְתֶּיךָ; Exodus 6:6, 7 סִבְלוֺת מִצְרַיִם מִתּ׳, Hosea 4:12 אֱלֹהֵיהֶם וַיִּזְנוּ מִתּ׳ (compare II. 1 c a, b); יַד פ׳ מִתּ׳ (compare II. 1 d) from under the hand (power) of... Exodus 18:10; 2 Kings 8:20, 22; 2 Kings 13:5; 2 Kings 17:7 +; מִתַּחְתָּיו (compare II. 2 a) from his place Exodus 10:23; Zechariah 6:12. Rarely = תַּחַת or מִתַּחַת לְ׳, Genesis 1:9 (P) Ezekiel 1:8; Ezekiel 42:9; Ezekiel 46:23; Job 26:5.
b. מִתַּחַת לְ׳ (opposed to מִמַּעַל לְ׳) under, beneath: Genesis 1:17 הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתּ׳ לָרָקִיעַ, Exodus 20:4 הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת לָאָרֶץ (so Deuteronomy 4:18; Deuteronomy 5:8), Judges 3:16 לְמַדָּיו מִתּ׳, Jeremiah 38:12 +; of locality, † Genesis 35:8 לְבֵיתְאֵל מִתּ׳, 1 Samuel 7:11; 1 Kings 4:12.
†c. לְמִתַּחַת לְ׳ (compare מִן 9b), id quod מִתַּחַת לְ׳ 1 Kings 7:32.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8460.
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Genesis

1:7; 1:9; 1:17; 2:18; 2:21; 4:25; 6:17; 7:19; 18:4; 21:15; 22:13; 24:2; 30:2; 30:15; 35:8; 41:35; 44:4; 44:33; 49:25; 50:19

Exodus

6:6; 6:7; 10:23; 16:29; 17:14; 18:10; 20:4; 20:4; 21:23; 21:24; 21:25; 21:26; 21:27; 21:36; 24:4

Leviticus

13:23; 13:23; 13:28; 14:42; 16:32

Numbers

5:19; 5:20; 5:29; 16:31; 25:13

Deuteronomy

2:12; 2:12; 2:21; 2:25; 3:17; 4:11; 4:18; 4:19; 4:36; 4:37; 4:39; 5:8; 5:8; 7:24; 9:14; 21:14; 22:29; 25:19; 28:47; 28:62; 29:19; 29:23; 33:13; 33:27

Joshua

2:11; 2:14; 2:14; 5:8; 6:5; 6:20; 11:3; 11:17

Judges

3:16; 3:30; 6:19; 7:8; 7:21

1 Samuel

2:20; 7:11; 14:9; 14:9; 21:4; 21:5; 21:5; 21:9; 25:21; 26:21

2 Samuel

2:23; 2:23; 3:12; 16:8; 16:12; 19:1; 19:22; 22:37; 22:40; 22:48

1 Kings

2:35; 4:12; 7:32; 8:6; 8:20; 9:8; 11:43; 14:20; 14:27; 20:24; 20:39; 20:42

2 Kings

8:20; 8:22; 10:24; 13:5; 14:27; 17:7; 21:2; 22:17

1 Chronicles

4:41; 5:22

2 Chronicles

4:3; 5:7; 12:10; 21:12; 34:25

Job

9:13; 9:13; 16:4; 18:16; 20:12; 26:5; 28:24; 30:14; 34:26; 36:16; 36:20; 37:3; 40:12; 41:3

Psalms

8:7; 10:7; 18:37; 18:37; 18:39; 18:40; 18:40; 18:48; 18:48; 35:12; 38:21; 38:21; 45:6; 45:17; 47:4; 47:4; 47:4; 66:17; 106:42; 109:4; 109:5; 140:4; 144:2; 149:6

Proverbs

1:29; 17:3; 22:27; 30:21; 30:22; 30:23

Ecclesiastes

1:3; 1:9; 1:13

Song of Songs

2:6; 4:11; 8:3

Isaiah

3:6; 3:24; 14:9; 24:5; 25:10; 43:3; 43:4; 46:7; 51:6; 53:12; 55:13; 60:15; 61:3; 61:7

Jeremiah

3:6; 5:19; 7:10; 22:8; 28:13; 29:19; 38:9; 38:11; 38:12; 50:7

Lamentations

3:34; 3:66

Ezekiel

1:8; 10:2; 23:5; 36:34; 42:9; 46:23; 47:1; 47:1

Daniel

9:12

Hosea

4:12

Amos

1:3; 2:9; 2:13; 2:13

Habakkuk

3:7; 3:16; 3:16

Zechariah

3:10; 6:12; 12:6; 14:10

Romans

7:2

H8478

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Strong's Number H8478 matches the Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ),
which occurs 16 times in 15 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “For long ago I broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, ‘I will not serve.’
Yes, on every high hill
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you bowed down like a whore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the LORD your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:19 - And when your people say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:20 - Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:13 - “Go, tell Hananiah, ‘Thus says the LORD: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:19 - because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the LORD, that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:26 - ‘The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:11 - So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:12 - Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:7 - All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea,[fn] and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.
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