# טָחַן (tachan)

Israeli respelling: ta-chan. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2912. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

to grind meal; hence, to be aconcubine (that being their employment)

King James renderings: grind(-er).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tachan-h2912

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 32:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/32/20) — And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the ch…
- [Numbers 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/8) — And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and…
- [Deuteronomy 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/21) — And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as sma…
- [Judges 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/21) — But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in…
- [Job 31:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/10) — Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
- [Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/3) — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are fe…
- [Isaiah 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/15) — What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
- [Isaiah 47:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/47/2) — Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.