tekufa · turn (of the year)

What it means

tekufa (תְּקוּפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turn (of the year)”.

Turn, full cycle; the turn of the year.

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. Revolution, full round; the close of time or of the year.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• turn ×3
• circuit ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1

• Exodus 34:22

  And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe for yourself, the first fruits of the harvest of wheat, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

• 1 Samuel 1:20

  And it happened, at the turn of the days, that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Samuel: “Because I asked for him from YHWH.”

• 2 Chronicles 24:23

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, that the force of Aram came up against him; they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and all their spoil they sent to the king of Damascus.

• Psalms 19:6

  From the end of the heavens is its going out, and its circuit to their ends; and nothing is hidden from its heat.