tichon · middle

What it means

tichon (תִּיכוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “middle”.

In the center.

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 one that stands in the center, between the upper and the lower.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Exodus 26:28

  The middle bar, halfway up the boards, shall run from end to end.

• Exodus 36:33

  And he made the middle bar to pass through the middle of the boards from end to end.

• Judges 7:19

  Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the watch in the middle, when they had just set the guards; and they blew the horns and smashed the jars that were in their hand.

• 1 Kings 6:6

  The lower annex was five cubits wide, and the middle one six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he had put offsets on the house all around on the outside, so as not to fasten into the walls of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:8

  The entrance of the middle side chamber was on the right side of the house; and by spiral stairs they went up to the middle one, and from the middle one to the third.

• 2 Kings 20:4

  And it happened, when Isaiah had not yet gone out of the middle court, that the word of YHWH came to him, saying,

• Ezekiel 41:7

  And it became wider and wound around higher and higher for the side chambers, for the encircling of the house went higher and higher all around the house; therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so the lowest story went up to the highest by the middle one.

• Ezekiel 42:5

  And the upper chambers were shorter, because the terraces took space from them more than from the lower ones and the middle ones of the building.

• Ezekiel 42:6

  For they were in three stories, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper story was reduced more than the lower ones and the middle ones from the floor.

And 2 more times.