Midst
תָּ֫וֶךְStrong’s H8432tavekh (ta-vekh)
Appears in 390 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tavekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “among”, “midst of” and “middle of”. It appears in 390 verses of the Old Testament.
“And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:”
Meaning
- Midst, middleinto, through (after verbs of motion) · among (of a number of persons) · between (of things arranged by twos) · from among (as to take or separate etc)
How it's translated
- in among 76
- in midst of 60
- in middle of 45
- in midst of them 39
- in midst of you 31
- in midst of it 30
- from among 26
- middle of 24
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 104
- Numbers 42
- Exodus 28
- Joshua 28
- Jeremiah 22
- Deuteronomy 20
27 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 2:5In contextFor I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
- Zechariah 2:10In contextSing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
- Zechariah 2:11In contextAnd many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
- Zechariah 5:4In contextI will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
- Zechariah 5:7In contextAnd, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
- Zechariah 5:8In contextAnd he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
All 390 verses, by book
- Exodus 28
- 2:53:23:47:59:2411:412:3112:4914:1614:2214:2314:2714:2915:1924:1624:1825:826:2828:128:3228:3329:4529:4633:1136:3339:339:2339:25
- Numbers 42
- 1:471:492:172:333:124:24:185:35:218:68:148:168:199:713:3215:1415:2615:2916:316:2116:3316:4516:4717:618:618:2018:2318:2419:619:1019:2025:725:1126:6227:327:427:732:3033:835:535:1535:34
- Joshua 28
- 3:174:34:54:84:94:104:187:217:238:98:138:2212:213:913:1614:315:1316:917:417:617:919:119:919:4920:921:4122:1922:31
- Song of Solomon 1
- 3:10
- Jeremiah 22
- 9:612:1412:1621:429:3237:437:1239:339:1440:140:540:641:741:844:750:850:3751:651:4551:4751:6352:25
- Ezekiel 104
- 1:11:41:51:162:53:153:243:255:25:45:55:85:105:126:76:137:47:98:119:29:410:1011:111:711:911:1111:2312:212:1012:1212:2413:1414:814:914:1414:1614:1814:2015:416:5317:1618:1819:219:620:820:921:3222:322:722:922:1322:1822:1922:2022:2122:2222:2522:2623:3924:524:724:1126:526:1226:1527:2727:3227:3428:1428:1628:1828:2228:2329:329:429:1229:2130:731:1431:1731:1832:2032:2132:2532:2832:3233:3334:1234:2436:2337:137:2637:2839:743:743:944:946:1047:2248:848:1048:1548:2148:22
- Zephaniah 1
- 2:14
- Haggai 1
- 2:5
Hebrew dictionary
תָּ֫וֶךְ tavekh · midst
1) midst, middle 1a) midst, middle 1b) into, through (after verbs of motion) 1c) among (of a number of persons) 1d) between (of things arranged by twos) 1e) from among (as to take or separate etc)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “midst” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIDST, noun
[contracted from middest, the superlative of mid.]
All definitions and other forms of “midst”
MIDST, adverb
In the middle.
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.