--- title: תָּוֶךְ — midst · The Tanakh dictionary description: תָּוֶךְ (8432), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 418 times: midst. BDB 1906: subst. midst. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8432.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1514.md)‎ / תָּוֶךְ‎ # תָּוֶךְ «תָּוֶךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **midst** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 418 times · **Key:** 8432 · **BDB:** תָּ֫וֶךְ ### Glosses (132); the.midst (111); the.middle (99) ### Meaning (OSHB) midst [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8432/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) subst. midst [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8432/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** subst. midst (NH id., also denom. תִּוֵּוךְ; √ unknown; not apparently in cognate languages);—abs. תָּ֫וֶךְ Gn 15:10 +; cstr. תּוֹךְ 1:6 +; תּוֹכִי, תּוֹכוֹ, etc., 2 fs. תּוֹכֵ֫כִי †ψ 116:19; 135:9, תּוֹכֹה †Ez 48:15, 2f, תּוֹכֲכֶם Gn 23:9 +, תּוֹכָ֑הְנָה † Ez 16:53 (Ges§ 91 f);—midst, whether of a space or place, a number of people or things, or of a line: abs. †Ju 16:29 עַמּוּדֵי הַתָּוֶךְ = the middle columns, Je 39:3 שַׁעַר הַתּ׳, בַּתָּוֶךְ Gn 15:10 וַיְבַתֵּר אֹתָם בַּתּ׳, Nu 35:5 וְהָעִיר בַּתָּוֶךְ, Jos 8:22 Ju 15:4 Is 66:17 אַחַר אֶחָד בַּתָּוֶךְ; cstr. 1 K 8:64 קִדַּשׁ הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶת־ תּוֹךְ הֶחָצֵר, Ez 15:4 וְתוֹכוֹ נָחָר; usually c. prep., as בְּ (often = an emph. in, in the very heart and midst of), Gn 1:6 בְּתוֹךְ הַמַּיִם, 2:9 בְּת׳ הַגָּן, 9:21 בְּת׳ אָהֳלֹה, 18:24 בְּת׳ הָעִיר, 37:7 בְּת׳ הַשָּׂדֶה, Ex 11:4 אני יוצא בת׳ מצרים, 39:3, Jos 8:9 בְּת׳ הָעָם, Ju 7:16 בת׳ הַכַּדִּים, 1 K 3:20 בְּת׳ הַלַּיְלָה; בְּתוֹכָהּ (of land or city) Nu 13:32 Is 7:6, etc.; in Ez בְּתוֹכֵךְ, בְּתוֹכָהּ, etc., of sins done, or judgment to be wrought, in the very midst of Jerusalem, Ez 5:8, 10; 9:4; 22:3, 7, 9, 13 +; בְּת׳ מֵעַי ψ 22:15, 40:9 תּוֹרָֽתְךָ בְּת׳ מֵעָ֑י, בְּת׳ לִבִּי v 11, cf. Pr 4:21; after verbs of motion, = into Ex 14:27 1 S 9:14, = through Ex 14:29; Nu 33:8; Ez 9:4; Ne 9:11; of a number of persons = among (not necess. of the actual middle), Gn 40:20 בְּת׳ עֲבָדָיו, בְּתוֹכֵנוּ 23:6, בְּתוֹכָם 1 S 10:10; Jb 1:6, etc., הַגָּר בְּתוֹכֲכֶם Lv 17:8, 10, 13 +; = between (of things arranged by twos) Ex 39:25; in P often (12 times) of the divine presence, or dwelling, in the midst of Isr., Ex 25:8; 29:45, 46; Lv 15:31; 16:16 + (CarpenterHex. i. 209, ed. 2, 410; JED in such cases have always קֶרֶב), so Ez 37:26, 28; 43:7, 9, cf. Hg. 2:5; מִן, as Gn 19:29 מִתּוֹךְ הַהֲפֵכָה, Ex 3:2 מִתּ׳ הַסְּנֶה, 33:11 לֹא יָמִישׁ מִתּ׳ הָאֹהֶל, Dt 4:12 + מִתּ׳ הָאֵשׁ, 1 S 15:6 רְדוּ מִתּ׳ עֲמָלֵק; = from among, as to take, separate, etc., מִתּוֹכָם, מִתּ׳ הָעָם, etc., Ex 7:5; 28:1; Nu 3:12; 4:2, 18; 16:21, 33; 17:10; 19:20 (all P) +; אֶל, as Ex 14:23 ויבאו … אֶל־תּוֹךְ הַיָּם, Lv 11:33; Nu 17:12 וַיָּרָץ אֶל־תּ׳ הַקָּהָל, 19:6 Dt 21:12 וַהֲבֵאתָהּ אֶל־תּ׳ בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ, 22:2; 23:11; 2 S 3:27; Je 21:4 +; עַד 2 S 4:6; מֵעַל †Ez 11:23.—תוך is used by most writers, occ. c. 8–10 times in many books, but is especially frequent in P (c. 106 times) and Ez (116 times). Syn. קֶרֶב, q.v. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 85 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «תָּוֶךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8432/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Psalms 68:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/) קִדְּמ֣וּ שָׁ֭רִים אַחַ֣ר נֹגְנִ֑ים בְּת֥וֹךְ עֲ֝לָמ֗וֹת תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃ *Word for word:* they.went.in.front singers \[were\].behind musicians among young.women \[who.were\].playing.tambourines *JPS 1917:* The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels. [Psalms 137:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.2/) עַֽל־עֲרָבִ֥ים בְּתוֹכָ֑הּ תָּ֝לִ֗ינוּ כִּנֹּרוֹתֵֽינוּ׃ *Word for word:* on poplars in the.midst of.it we.hung.up harps our *JPS 1917:* Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps. - ← previous: [תּוֹחֶלֶת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8431.md) - next →: [תּוֹכֵחָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8433.md) - ↑ back to [ת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1514.md)