tachton · lower

What it means

tachton (תַּחְתּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lower”.

From below, lower.

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. What is on the lowest level, in a building or a place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Lower ×12
• lowest story ×1

Where it appears

• Joshua×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×6

• Joshua 16:3

  and it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon and as far as Gezer, and its ends were at the sea.

• Joshua 18:13

  And from there the border passed along to Luz, to the slope of Luz on the south (that is Bethel); and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, on the hill that is south of Lower Beth-horon.

• 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 9:17

  And Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth-horon,

• 1 Chronicles 7:24

  And his daughter was Sheerah, and she built Lower Beth-horon and Upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.

• 2 Chronicles 8:5

  He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

• Isaiah 22:9

  And the breaches of the city of David you saw, that they were many; and you collected the waters of the lower pool.

• Ezekiel 40:18

  And the pavement was beside the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, the lower pavement.

• Ezekiel 40:19

  And he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court outside, a hundred cubits, on the east and the north.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 43:14

  And from the base on the earth to the lower ledge, two cubits, and the width, one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, and the width, a cubit.