Grinding
טְחוֹןStrong’s H2911techon (te-chon)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Techon is the Hebrew word usually translated “mill”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.”
Meaning
- Mill, grinding mill, hand mill
How it's translated
- a mill 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
טְחוֹן techon · grinding
mill, grinding mill, hand mill
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grinding” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRINDING, participle present
tense Reducing to powder by friction; triturating; levitating; chewing.
- Making sharp; making smooth or polishing by friction.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.