tachan · grind

What it means

tachan (טָחַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grind”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To grind grain between stones into flour; also, to crush without mercy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• grind ×5
• grinding ×2
• ground it ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2

• Exodus 32:20

  And he took the calf that they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it until it was fine dust, and scattered it on the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

• Numbers 11:8

  The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

• Deuteronomy 9:21

  And your sin that you had made, the calf, I took and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

• Judges 16:21

  And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters; and he was grinding in the house of the prisoners.

• Job 31:10

  let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down over her.

• Ecclesiastes 12:3

  on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of vigor stoop, and those who grind cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark,

• Isaiah 3:15

  What right have you that you crush my people and grind the face of the afflicted? declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 47:2

  Take the mill and grind flour; uncover your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers.