takh.lit denotes a boundary, endpoint, or utmost extent in settings of reach, measurement, darkness, and hatred.

The attested use chiefly marks a boundary or endpoint: the reach of inquiry, a marked boundary, the end of darkness, and the end of a measured building span. In Psalm 139:22, the construct form occurs in the clause the APB renders "with perfect hatred," where its precise contribution is less isolable from the translation.

1. Boundary or endpoint of reach and extent · dominant

   The construct forms in Job 11:7 and Job 26:10 occur in clauses concerning reaching the Almighty's limit and a boundary between light and darkness; the APB renders these clauses "reach the limit of the Almighty" and "to the boundary of light with darkness." In Job 28:3, the absolute form appears where the APB renders "He sets an end to darkness and searches out every limit," while Nehemiah 3:21 places the construct form at the end of the measured work along the house of Eliashib.

   Job 11:7Job 26:10Job 28:3Nehemiah 3:21
2. Utmost degree in an expression of hatred · rare

   In Psalm 139:22, the construct singular form occurs in the clause the APB renders "I hate them with perfect hatred." The verse presents the term within an intensified statement of hatred, though the translation does not isolate its specific English contribution word-for-word.

   Psalm 139:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the term's contexts with "limit," "boundary," "end," "every limit," and "perfect hatred." These are renderings of the surrounding clauses rather than fixed English equivalents for the term.