Lexicon
תָּ֫וֶךְ
ta.vekh
H8432
H:N-M Hebrew

midst

420
Occurrences
27
Books
Hebrew
Language

ta.vekh denotes an interior, central, or enclosed location, including a position within a group or place.

The supplied verses consistently use the noun for a location within something else: the interior or central area of a house, tent, court, city, land, or pit, and a position among people or other entities. The same spatial relation can mark action occurring inside an enclosure, placement at its center, or removal and selection from within a group.

Senses in use

  1. Interior or central location within a larger whole · dominant

    The construct noun marks a place within an enclosing setting or collective. In 1 Kings 6:27 the APB renders the cherubim as placed “in the midst of the inner house” and their wings meeting “in the midst of the house”; in 1 Samuel 10:23 it renders Saul as standing “in the midst of the people.” The same relation occurs for movement or action inside a setting: 1 Chronicles 11:22 places the lion in the pit, while 2 Kings 9:2 brings Jehu out from his brothers and into an inner chamber.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly uses “in the midst,” while also using “middle,” “inside,” “within,” “among,” and “from among.” These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions of the noun.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture