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title: טְחוֹן — grinding-mill · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טְחוֹן (2911), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: grinding-mill. BDB 1906: grinding-mill, hand-mill. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טְחוֹן

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«טְחוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grinding-mill** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2911 · **BDB:** טְחוֹן

### Glosses

a.mill (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

grinding-mill [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2911/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

grinding-mill, hand-mill [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2911/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] grinding-mill, hand-mill; only בַּחוּרִים ט׳ נָשָׂ֑אוּ La 5:13 the young men have borne the mill (i.e. been compelled to bear it).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טְחוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2911/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 5:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.13/)

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בַּחוּרִים֙ טְח֣וֹן נָשָׂ֔אוּ וּנְעָרִ֖ים בָּעֵ֥ץ כָּשָֽׁלוּ׃

*Word for word:* young.men a.mill they.have.lifted and young.men with (the) wood they.have.staggered

*JPS 1917:* The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.

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