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Proportion

תׇּכְנִיתStrong’s H8508

tokhnit (tokh-nit)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tokhnit is the Hebrew word usually translated “example” and “pattern”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.”
Ezekiel 28:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Measurement, pattern, proportion
How it's translated
  • an example 1
  • a pattern 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

תׇּכְנִית tokhnit · proportion

measurement, pattern, proportion

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “proportion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PROPORTION, noun

[Latin proportio; pro and portio, part or share. See Portion.]

  1. The comparative relation of any one thing to another.
  2. The identity or similitude of two ratios. proportion differs from ratio.
  3. In arithmetic, a rule by which, when three numbers are given, a fourth number is found, which bears the same relation to the third as the second does to the first; or a fourth number is found, bearing the same relation to the second as the first does to the third.
  4. Symmetry; suitable adaptation of one part or thing to another; as the proportion of one limb to another in the human body; the proportion of the length and breadth of a room to its highth.
All definitions and other forms of “proportion”
  1. Equal or just share; as, to ascertain the proportion of profit to which each partner in a company is entitled.
  2. Form; size. [Little used.]
  3. The relation between unequal things of the same kind, by which their several parts correspond to each other with an equal augmentation and diminution, as in reducing and enlarging figures.

PROPORTION, verb transitive

To adjust the comparative relation of one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its highth, or the thickness of a thing to its length; to proportion our expenditures to our income.

  1. To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.

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.