tachan · weigh, measure

What it means

tachan (תָּכַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weigh, measure”.

To weigh, to measure exactly; to examine something to give it its right value.

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. YHWH tests hearts as on a scale.
2. To measure, make firm.
3. To be well measured and fair, like one who weighs with an exact scale.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rightly weighed ×6
• weighs ×3
• well weighed ×3
• gauged ×2
• are weighed ×1
• had been weighed out ×1
• have set firm ×1
• regulated ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×9

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  Do not go on speaking so proudly, proudly; let no arrogance come out of your mouth; for an El of knowledge is YHWH, and by him actions are weighed.

• 2 Kings 12:11

  They would give the silver that had been weighed out into the hands of those doing the work, who were appointed over the house of YHWH; and they paid it out to the craftsmen in wood and to the builders who were working on the house of YHWH,

• Job 28:25

  When he made a weight for the wind, and regulated the waters by measure;

• Psalms 75:3

  The earth and all its inhabitants melt; I have set firm its pillars. Selah.

• Proverbs 16:2

  All the ways of a man are clean in his eyes, but YHWH weighs the spirits.

• Proverbs 21:2

  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but YHWH weighs hearts.

• Proverbs 24:12

  If you say, “Look, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs hearts understand it? And he who keeps your soul, he will know it, and he will repay a man according to his work.

• Isaiah 40:12

  Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and the heavens with the span gauged, and held in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed with the scale the mountains and the hills with a balance?

• Isaiah 40:13

  Who has gauged the spirit of YHWH, or as the man of his counsel has made it known to him?

• Ezekiel 18:25

  Yet you say, ‘The way of Adonai is not rightly weighed.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not rightly weighed? Is it not your ways that are not rightly weighed?

• Ezekiel 18:29

  Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of Adonai is not rightly weighed.’ Are my ways not rightly weighed, house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not rightly weighed?

• Ezekiel 33:17

  And the sons of your people say, “The way of Adonai is not well weighed”; but they, their way is not well weighed.

• Ezekiel 33:20

  And you say, “The way of Adonai is not well weighed.” Each one according to his ways I will judge you, house of Israel.’”

And 5 more times.