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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)
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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 15 times in 13 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every first-born that opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - And you shall take the Levites for me--I am the LORD--instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the people of Israel."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - "Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness, while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - "This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel; instead of all that open the womb, the first-born of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 - And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split asunder;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27 - When the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the ass with his staff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:13 - and it shall be to him, and to his descendants after him, the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the people of Israel.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - And behold, you have risen in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!
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