Limit
תַּכְלִיתStrong’s H8503takhlit (takh-lit)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Takhlit is the Hebrew word usually translated “end of”, “outermost part” and “completeness of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.”
Meaning
- End, perfection, consummation, completion, completenessend · completeness
How it's translated
- end of 3
- outermost part 1
- completeness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Nehemiah 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 11:7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Job 26:10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
- Job 28:3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
- Psalms 139:22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּכְלִית takhlit · limit
1) end, perfection, consummation, completion, completeness 1a) end 1b) completeness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “limit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIM'IT, noun
[Latin limes. See Limb.]
- Bound; border; utmost extent; the part that terminates a thing; as the limit of a town, city or empire; the limits of human knowledge.
- The thing which bounds; restraint.
- Limits, plural, the extent of the liberties of a prison.
All definitions and other forms of “limit”
LIM'IT, verb transitive
- To bound; to set bounds to.
- To confine within certain bounds; to circumscribe; to restrain.“They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel” Psalms 78:41
- To restrain from a lax or general signification.
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.