Hebrew word · H8481

תַּחְתּוֹן

tachton

lower

Appears 13 times in 13 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

lower, lowest, nether

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Joshua · 2
  1. Joshua 16:3 תַּחְתּ֖וֹן lower

    Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

    Here: Tells this town apart from Upper Beth-horon, which stands higher up the same ridge road (v. 5). 'Lower' is literal: it sits lower down the slope.

  2. Joshua 18:13 תַּחְתּֽוֹן׃ lower

    From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.

1 Kings · 2
  1. 1 Kings 6:6 הַתַּחְתֹּנָ֜ה <the> lower

    The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

  2. 1 Kings 9:17 תַּחְתּֽוֹן׃ lower

    So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

1 Chronicles · 1
  1. 1 Chronicles 7:24 הַתַּחְתּ֖וֹן <the> lower

    His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.

    Here: 'The Lower' one: the town at the foot of the steep climb up from the Aijalon valley.

2 Chronicles · 1
  1. 2 Chronicles 8:5 הַתַּחְתּ֑וֹן <the> lower

    He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

    Here: 'The lower (one)'. This village sits about 3 km (2 miles) to the west and roughly 200 m (650 ft) further down the slope, at modern Beit ʿUr at-Taḥta. It was the only one of the two named in the parallel account, 1 Kings 9:17.

Isaiah · 1
  1. Isaiah 22:9 הַתַּחְתּוֹנָֽה׃ <the> lower

    You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

Ezekiel · 6
  1. Ezekiel 40:18 הַתַּחְתּוֹנָֽה׃ <the> lower

    which flanked the gateways and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

  2. Ezekiel 40:19 הַתַּחְתּ֜וֹנָה <the> lower

    Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.

  3. Ezekiel 41:7 הַתַּחְתּוֹנָ֛ה the lower [story]

    The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

  4. Ezekiel 42:5 מֵֽהַתַּחְתֹּנ֛וֹת more than the lower [rooms]

    Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

  5. Ezekiel 42:6 מֵהַתַּחְתּוֹנ֛וֹת more than the lower [rooms]

    For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

  6. Ezekiel 43:14 הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה֙ <the> lower

    The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

    Here: Identifies the first, bottom ledge. Later in the verse the same ledge is called 'the small one'.

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