Mill
טַחֲנָהStrong’s H2913tachanah (ta-cha-nah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tachanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “grinding mill”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;”
Meaning
- Mill
How it's translated
- the grinding mill 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
טַחֲנָה tachanah · mill
mill
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mill” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MILL, noun
[Latin mille, a thousand.]
A money of account of the United States, value the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
All definitions and other forms of “mill”
MILL, noun
[Latin mola, molo, mel, honey, mollis; Eng. mellow, mild, mold, meal.
- A complicated engine or machine for grinding and reducing to fine particles, grain, fruit or other substance, or for performing other operations by means of wheels and a circular motion; as a grist-mill for grain; a coffee-mill; a cider-mill; a bark-mill.
- The house or building that contains the machinery for grinding, etc.
MILL, verb transitive
To grind; to comminute; to reduce to fine particles or to small pieces.
- To beat up chocolate.
- To stamp coin.
- To full, as cloth.
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.