Midvash

תָּוֶךְtâvek

a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre

Pronunciation: taw'-vek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8432

Meanings

whether of a space or place, a number of people or things, or of a line, after verbs of motion, = into, of a number of persons = among (not necessarily of the actual middle), = between (of things arranged by twos), of the divinE presence, or dwelling, in the midst of Israel, = from among, as to take, separate, etc. (Genesis 15:10; Genesis 1:6; Psalms 116:19; Psalms 135:9; Ezekiel 48:15)

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Where it appears

Appears 418 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.”
  • Genesis 2:9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Genesis 3:3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
  • Genesis 3:8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.
  • Genesis 9:21 One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.
  • Genesis 15:10 So Abram presented all these to him and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the middle and laid the halves side by side; he did not, however, cut the birds in half.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).