תָּקַן
takan · make straight
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8626 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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takan (תָּקַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “make straight”.
To make straight; to set in order.
How to say it
ta·kan
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
- To set right what is bent; to set in place.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- be made straight ×1
- he arranged ×1
- make straight ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 1:15
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13
See the work of Elohim, for who can make straight what he has made crooked?
- Ecclesiastes 12:9
And besides that Qohelet was wise, he also taught the people knowledge, and he weighed and searched out; he arranged many proverbs.