tavnit · pattern

What it means

tavnit (תַּבְנִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pattern”.

Design: the form after which something is made; also a likeness, an image.

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. The pattern for building something.
2. The image or figure that represents something, often an idol.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pattern ×9
• representation ×5
• form ×3
• like the figure ×1
• likeness ×1
• model ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×4
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Exodus 25:9

  According to all that I am showing you, the pattern of the dwelling and the pattern of all its furnishings, so you shall make it.

• Exodus 25:40

  See that you make them after their pattern that you are being shown on the mountain.

• Deuteronomy 4:16

  so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any idol, the representation of male or female,

• Deuteronomy 4:17

  the representation of any beast that is on the earth, the representation of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,

• Deuteronomy 4:18

  the representation of any creeping thing on the ground, the representation of any fish that is in the waters below the earth.

• Joshua 22:28

  And we said, ‘And it shall be, when they say this to us and to our generations tomorrow, that we will say, “See the model of the altar of YHWH, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering and not for sacrifice, but it is a witness between us and you.”’

• 2 Kings 16:10

  King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria at Damascus, and he saw the altar that was in Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the likeness of the altar and its pattern, for all its workmanship.

• 1 Chronicles 28:11

  David gave Solomon his son the pattern of the portico and of its houses, its treasure rooms, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the cover of expiation;

• 1 Chronicles 28:12

  and the pattern of all that he had in the spirit for the courts of the house of YHWH and for all the chambers around, for the treasuries of the house of Elohim and for the treasuries of the holy things;

• 1 Chronicles 28:18

  and for the altar of incense, refined gold by weight; and for the pattern of the chariot, the cherubim of gold that spread out and cover over the ark of the covenant of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 28:19

  “All this in writing from the hand of YHWH upon me, he made me understand: all the works of the pattern.”

• Psalms 106:20

  And they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

• Psalms 144:12

  so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth, our daughters like corners carved in the pattern of a palace;

• Isaiah 44:13

  The craftsman of wood stretches out a line; he marks it out with a stylus; he makes it with planes, and with the compass he marks it out, and makes it like the figure of a man, like the beauty of a human being, to dwell in a house.

• Ezekiel 8:3

  And he stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and a spirit lifted me between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in visions of Elohim, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy.

• Ezekiel 8:10

  And I went in and looked, and look, every form of creeping thing and of detestable beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, carved on the wall all around, all around.

• Ezekiel 10:8

  And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a human hand under their wings.

And 3 more times.