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Strong's #8476 - תַּחַשׁ

Transliteration
tachash
Phonetics
takh'-ash
Origin
probably of foreign derivation
Parts of Speech
Noun Masculine
TWOT
2503
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תַּחַשׁ
Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) a kind of leather, skin, or animal hide

1a) perhaps the animal yielding the skin

1a1) perhaps the badger or dugong, dolphin, or sheep

Greek Equivalent Words:
Strong #: 5191 ‑ ὑακίνθινος (hoo‑ak‑in'‑thee‑nos);  5192 ‑ ὑάκινθος (hoo‑ak'‑in‑thos);  
Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (14)
Exodus 6
Numbers 7
Ezekiel 1
NAS (16)
Exodus 6
Numbers 8
Ezekiel 2
HCS (14)
Exodus 6
Numbers 7
Ezekiel 1
BSB (14)
Exodus 6
Numbers 7
Ezekiel 1
ESV (2)
Numbers 1
Ezekiel 1
WEB (14)
Exodus 6
Numbers 7
Ezekiel 1
Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2891) sht (תההסה THhSh) AC: ? CO: ? AB: ?

Nm ) sht (תההסה THhSh) - Tahhash: An unknown animal. KJV (14): badger - Strongs: H8476 (תַּחַשׁ)

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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 I. תַּ֫חַשׁ noun masculine ta—aš, a kind of leather or skin, and perhaps the animal yielding it (probably the dugong, compare Arabic dolphin, Thes1500 Di-Ry Exodus 25:5 Post Hast. DB BADGER; Assyrian ta—šu (Dl Baer Ezech. xvi), for which Dl Proi. 77 ff.; HWB 705 conjecture meaning sheep(skin); Bondi Egyptiaca 1ff. compare Egyptian ¾µ´, leather; see summary of views M'Lean-Shiply Ency. Bib. BADGERS' SKINS); — absolute ׳ת Numbers 4:6 +, תָּחַשׁ Numbers 4:8 +; plural תְּחָשִׁים Exodus 25:5 +; — leather used for (woman's) sandals Ezekiel 16:10; elsewhere for cover of tabernacle Numbers 4:25, ׳עוֺר ת Numbers 4:6; Numbers 4:8; Numbers 4:10; Numbers 4:11; Numbers 4:12; Numbers 4:14, עֹרֹת (הַ)תְּחָשִׁים Exodus 25:5; Exodus 26:14; Exodus 35:7,23; Exodus 36:19; Exodus 39:34 (all P).


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

תַּחַשׁ m. an obscure word, always in this connexion, עוֹר תַּחַשׁ Tachash skin, Numbers 4:6, seq. Plur. עוֹרוֹת תְּחַשִׁים Tachash skins, Exodus 25:5, 26:14 35:23 39:34 and in the same sense simply תַּחַשׁ Numbers 4:25; Ezekiel 16:10 (where it is said that women’s shoes are made of it). The ancient versions understand it to be the colour of a skin (LXX. ὑακίνθινα. Aqu. Symm. ἰάνθινα. Chald. and Syr. rubra, red), and they have been followed by Bochart (Hieroz. i. p. 989, seqq.); this is however a mere conjecture, which has no ground either in the etymology or in the cognate languages; on the other hand the Talmudists and almost all the Hebrew interpreters take תַּחַשׁ to be an animal, the skins of which were used both for a covering of the holy tabernacle, and for making shoes. I have no hesitation in acceding to this opinion, and I would follow R. Salomon on Eze. loc. cit. with Luther in understanding it to be either the seal, or the badger, taxus or taxo (meles, Varr. Plin.). Besides the context, which almost requires an animal, this opinion is supported

(1) by the authority of the Talmudists who (Tract. Sabb. cap. ii. fol. 28) in treating at large of this animal, say that it is like the weasel (תלא אילן), which is very suitable to the badger

(2) by the agreement of languages, the authority of which is very great with regard to the names of animals and plants. Arabic تخُسُ and دُخَسُ are indeed rendered dolphin by lexicographers; but this name has a wider extent, and alsc comprehends seals, which in many respects resemble the badger, and which were of frequent occurrence in the peninsula of Sinai (Strab. xvi. p. 776); this has been already observed (see Beckm. ad Antig. Caryst. c. 60). The Latin taxus and taxo (whence in modern languages taxo, taisson, Dachs) is not found, it is true, in Latin writers before the time of Augustine, but there is no need for us to consider it on that account to be a new-formed word, but only one received from the vulgar language, and of foreign origin.

(3) The etymology, which the Hebrew language supplies with sufficient probability. For תַּחַשׁ may be for תַּחֲשֶׁה, from the root חָשָׁה to rest, so that taxus may be so called from its sleeping for half a year, which became almost proverbial; nor are seals less somnolent.

(4) The skins both of the badger and seal might without doubt have been used both for covering the tabernacle, and for making elegant shoes: seal skins are even now used for shoes. To give my opinion, the Hebrews seem to have at once designated by this one word (which the Arabs and western nations apply to only particular species), the seal, the badger, and other similar creatures, which they neither knew nor distinguished with accuracy.

[(2) Tahash, pr.n. m. Genesis 22:24.]


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List of Word Forms
הַתְּחָשִׁ֑ים הַתַּ֥חַשׁ התחש התחשים תְּחָשִׁ֖ים תַּ֔חַשׁ תַּ֖חַשׁ תָּ֑חַשׁ תחש תחשים hat·ta·ḥaš hat·tə·ḥā·šîm hatTachash hattaḥaš hattechaShim hattəḥāšîm ta·ḥaš tā·ḥaš Tachash taḥaš tāḥaš tə·ḥā·šîm techaShim təḥāšîm
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