Leather
תַּ֫חַשׁStrong’s H8476tachash (ta-chash)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tachash is the Hebrew word usually translated “dolphin”, “dolphins” and “leather”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,”
Meaning
- A kind of leather, skin, or animal hideperhaps the animal yielding the skin
How it's translated
- dolphin 6
- dolphins 5
- the dolphins 1
- the dolphin 1
- leather 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 7
- Exodus 6
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
- Exodus 35:7And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- Exodus 35:23And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.
- Exodus 36:19And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
- Exodus 39:34And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,
- Numbers 4:6And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּ֫חַשׁ tachash · leather
1) a kind of leather, skin, or animal hide 1a) perhaps the animal yielding the skin 1a1) perhaps the badger or dugong, dolphin, or sheep, or a now extinct animal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.