Quantity
תֹּ֫כֶןStrong’s H8506tokhen (to-khen)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tokhen is the Hebrew word usually translated “measurement of” and “measurement”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.”
Meaning
- Measurement, a measured amount
How it's translated
- and measurement of 1
- measurement 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
תֹּ֫כֶן tokhen · quantity
measurement, a measured amount
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “quantity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUAN'TITY, noun
[Latin quantitas, from quantus, how much, or as much as.]
- That property of any thing which may be increased or diminished.
- An indefinite extent of space.
- A portion or part.
- a large portion; as a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities.
All definitions
- In mathematics, any thing which can be multiplied, divided or measured.
- In grammar, the measure of a sullable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced.
- In logic, a category, universal, or predicament; a general conception.
- In music, the relative duration of a note or syllable.
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.