Middle
תִּיכוֹןStrong’s H8484tikhon (ti-khon)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tikhon is the Hebrew word usually translated “middle” and “more than the middle”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.”
Meaning
- Middle
How it's translated
- middle 5
- the middle 2
- and more than the middle 2
- and the middle 1
- to the middle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Judges 1
- 2 Kings 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 36:33And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
- Judges 7:19So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
- 1 Kings 6:6The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:8The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
- 2 Kings 20:4And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
- Ezekiel 41:7And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
Hebrew dictionary
תִּיכוֹן tikhon · middle
middle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “middle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIDDLE, adjective
mid'l. [Latin medius.]
- Equally distant from the extremes; as the middle point of a line or circle; the middle station of life.
- Intermediate; intervening.
All definitions and other forms of “middle”
MID'DLE, noun
The point or part equally distant from the extremities.
- “See, there come people down by the middle of the land” Judges 9:37
- The time that passes, or events that happen between the beginning and the end.
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.