To grind
טָחַןStrong’s H2912tachan (ta-chan)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tachan is the Hebrew word usually translated “grinding”, “ground” and “let her grind”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to grind, crush
How it's translated
- grinding 2
- and he ground 1
- and they ground 1
- let her grind 1
- the grinders 1
- you grind 1
- and grind 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- Job 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 11:8And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
- Deuteronomy 9:21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
- Judges 16:21But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
- Job 31:10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
- Ecclesiastes 12:3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
- Isaiah 3:15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Hebrew dictionary
טָחַן tachan · to grind
(Qal) to grind, crush
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRIND, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive ground. [This word, if n is radical, may be allied to rend; if not, it coincides with grate; to make smooth, as mollis in Latin, allied to molo.]
- To break and reduce to fine particles or powder by friction; to comminute by attrition; to triturate.“Take the millstones and grind meal” Isaiah 47:2
- To break and reduce to small pieces by the teeth.
- To sharpen by rubbing or friction; to wear off the substance of a metallic instrument, and reduce it to a sharp edge by the friction of a stone; as, to grind an ax or scythe.
- To make smooth; to polish by friction; as, to grind glass.
All definitions and other forms of “grind”
- To rub one against another.
- To oppress by severe exactions; to afflict cruelly; to harass; as, to grind the faces of the poor Isaiah 3:15
- To crush in pieces; to ruin. Matthew 21:44
- To grate; as grinding pains.
GRIND, verb intransitive
To perform the operation of grinding; to move a mill.
- To be moved or rubbed together, as in the operation of grinding; as the grinding jaws.
- To be ground or pulverized by friction.
- To be polished and made smooth by friction.
- To be sharpened by grinding.
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.