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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - תָּכַן

תָּכַן

H8505

Transliteration: tâkan

Pronunciation: taw-kan'

Definition: bear up


Original: תּכן

Transliteration: tâkan

Phonetic: taw-kan'

BDB Definition:

  1. to regulate, measure, estimate, ponder, balance, make even, level, weigh, be equal, be weighed out, test, prove
    1. (Qal) estimate (participle)
    2. (Niphal)
      1. to be estimated
      2. to be made even or right, be adjusted to the standard
    3. (Piel) to weigh out, mete out
    4. (Pual)
      1. to be weighed out, be measured out
      2. measured out (participle)

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 2511

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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