fitting
te.khu.nah denotes the house’s specified fitting in Ezekiel; its contribution in Nahum’s ruin oracle is less clear.
The clearest use names an aspect of the house’s specified arrangement in Ezekiel 43:11; in Nahum 2:10 the absolute form occurs in a declaration of devastation, though the translation does not isolate its contribution.
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Specified fitting or arrangement · dominant
In Ezekiel 43:11, the construct singular form is included among what is to be made known about the house—alongside its design, exits, entrances, statutes, and instructions; the APB renders this portion as “the design of the house and its fitting.” In Nahum 2:10, the absolute singular form stands in the opening declaration of ruin, where the APB renders “Emptiness and emptiness and waste,” enough to identify the term’s precise English contribution.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ezekiel 43:11, the APB includes “its fitting” in its description of the house. In Nahum 2:10, it renders the opening as “Emptiness and emptiness and waste”; That wording cannot securely be assigned to this term alone.