techila · beginning

What it means

techila (תְּחִלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beginning”.

Start; "at first".

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 first moment of something, when it begins.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• beginning ×13
• first ×8
• start ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Judges×3
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Daniel×3
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 13:3

  He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

• Genesis 41:21

  They went into their bellies, but it could not be known that they had gone into their bellies, and their appearance was ugly just as at the beginning. Then I woke up.

• Genesis 43:18

  The men were afraid because they were brought into the house of Joseph, and they said, “Because of the matter of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time we are being brought in, so that he may assail us, fall upon us, and take us as slaves, and our donkeys.”

• Genesis 43:20

  and said, “Please, my lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

• Judges 1:1

  After the death of Joshua, the sons of Israel asked YHWH, saying, “Who will go up for us against the Canaanite first, to fight against him?”

• Judges 20:18

  They arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of Elohim; and the sons of Israel said, “Who shall go up for us first to war with the sons of Benjamin?” And YHWH said, “Judah first.”

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• 2 Samuel 17:9

  Look, now he is hidden in one of the pits or in one of the places; and it will be, when some fall among them at the first, that whoever hears will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow after Absalom.’

• 2 Samuel 21:9

  and he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before YHWH. The seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• 2 Samuel 21:10

  Rizpah daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the heavens to settle on them by day, or the animals of the field by night.

• 2 Kings 17:25

  And it happened, at the beginning of their living there, that they did not fear YHWH; so YHWH sent against them the lions, and they were killing some among them.

• Ezra 4:6

  And in the reign of Ahasuerus, at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 11:17

  and Mattaniah son of Micah, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, head of the beginning, who gave thanks in the prayer; and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.

• Proverbs 9:10

  The start of wisdom is the fear of YHWH, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

• Ecclesiastes 10:13

  The beginning of the words of his mouth is witlessness, and the end of his mouth is evil madness.

• Isaiah 1:26

  And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning; afterward you will be called City of Righteousness, Faithful City.

• Daniel 8:1

  In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me at the first.

• Daniel 9:21

  while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

• Daniel 9:23

  At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly loved; so understand the word and comprehend the vision.

• Hosea 1:2

  The beginning of what YHWH spoke through Hosea. And YHWH said to Hosea: Go, take for yourself a woman of prostitutions and children of prostitutions, for the land is utterly prostituting itself, turning away from following YHWH.

• Amos 7:1

  Thus Adonai YHWH showed me: and look, he was forming locusts at the beginning of the sprouting of the late grass; and look, it was the late grass after the mowings of the king.

And 1 more times.