תָּוֶךְ

tavech · midst

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8432 · appears 418 times in the Bible

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What it means

tavech (תָּוֶךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “midst”.

The middle, the center of something; "in the midst of", "among".

How to say it

ta·vech

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

The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
The inside of a place or an enclosed space.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

The middle, the center of something. It almost always goes with a preposition: “in the midst of”, “through the midst of”, “from the midst of”.

In the middle of the waters, in the middle of the garden Genesis 1:6 Genesis 2:9
God who dwells “in the midst” of his people Exodus 25:8
Through the midst of the sea Exodus 14:29
In the visions: “in its midst” Ezekiel 1:5

How we translate it

“Midst” 213 times, “among” 109, “middle” 56, “inside” 12, “within” 10. It is translated “in the midst of” or “in the middle of” almost always, because the English expression keeps the image of the center; “among”, “inside” or “within” only where English calls for it.

How it is translated

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

midst ×213
among ×109
middle ×56
inside ×12
within ×10
into ×6
between ×3
it ×3
from ×1
halfway up ×1
others ×4

Where it appears

Genesis 1:6
And Elohim said, “Let there be a vault in the middle of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 2:9
And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:3
but from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden Elohim has said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of YHWH Elohim walking about in the garden in the wind of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of YHWH Elohim among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine and became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Genesis 15:10
He brought him all these and cut them in two down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut in two.
Genesis 18:24
Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; will you really sweep away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
Genesis 18:26
YHWH said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Genesis 19:29
So it was that when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, Elohim remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overturning, when he overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.
Genesis 23:6
“Hear us, my lord: you are a chief of Elohim among us. In the choicest of our graves bury your dead. No one of us will withhold his grave from you for burying your dead.”
Genesis 23:9
that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field. For the full amount of silver let him give it to me among you as a possession for a grave.”
Genesis 23:10
Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.
Genesis 37:7
Look, we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and look, my sheaf rose and also stood upright; and look, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down before my sheaf.”
Genesis 40:20
On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.
Genesis 41:48
He gathered all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and put food in the cities; the food of the fields of each city that surrounded it he put in it.
Genesis 42:5
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Exodus 2:5
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, while her young women were walking beside the Nile. She saw the ark among the reeds and sent her maid, and she took it.
Exodus 3:2
The angel of YHWH appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush. He looked, and look, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.
Exodus 3:4
When YHWH saw that he had turned aside to look, Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians will know that I am YHWH, when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”
Exodus 9:24
There was hail, and fire flashing in the midst of the hail, very heavy, such as had never been like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Exodus 11:4
Moses said, “Thus says YHWH: ‘About midnight I will go out through the midst of Egypt,
Exodus 12:31
He called Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, go out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; go, serve YHWH as you have said.
Exodus 12:49
There shall be one law for the native and for the resident alien who resides among you.”
Exodus 14:16
And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and split it, so that the sons of Israel may go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
Exodus 14:22
The sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.
Exodus 14:23
The Egyptians pursued and went in after them, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:27
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned as morning appeared to its normal flow; and the Egyptians, fleeing, met it; and YHWH shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:29
But the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left.
Exodus 15:19
For when the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, YHWH brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 24:16
The glory of YHWH dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up onto the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 25:8
And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in their midst.
Exodus 26:28
The middle bar, halfway up the boards, shall run from end to end.
Exodus 28:1
And you, bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to serve as priest for me: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron.
Exodus 28:32
There shall be an opening for its head in its middle, with a binding around its opening, the work of a weaver; like the opening of a coat of mail it shall be for it, so that it will not tear.
Exodus 28:33
On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, on its hem all around, and bells of gold between them all around:
Exodus 29:45
I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will be their Elohim.
Exodus 29:46
And they shall know that I am YHWH their Elohim, who brought them out of the land of Egypt to dwell in their midst. I am YHWH their Elohim.

And 378 more times.