Pattern
תַּבְנִיתStrong’s H8403tavnit (tav-nit)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tavnit is the Hebrew word usually translated “likeness of”, “pattern of” and “form of”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.”
Meaning
- Pattern, plan, form, construction, figureconstruction, structure · pattern · figure, image (of idols)
How it's translated
- a likeness of 5
- pattern of 3
- form of 3
- and pattern of 2
- in pattern their 1
- copy of 1
- pattern its 1
- the pattern 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 2
- Psalms 2
- Joshua 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:40And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
- Deuteronomy 4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
- Deuteronomy 4:18The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
- Joshua 22:28Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
- 2 Kings 16:10And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּבְנִית tavnit · pattern
1) pattern, plan, form, construction, figure 1a) construction, structure 1a1) meaning uncertain 1b) pattern 1c) figure, image (of idols)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pattern” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PAT'TERN, noun
- An original or model proposed for imitation; the archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be copies or imitated, either in things or in actions; as the pattern of a machine; a pattern of patience.
- A specimen; a sample; a part showing the figure or quality of the whole; as a pattern of silk cloth.
- An instance; an example.
- Any thing cut of formed into the shape of something to be made after it.
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.