תְּחִלָּהtᵉchillâh

beginning (Nehemiah 11:17; Genesis 13:3; Hosea 1:2; Proverbs 9:10; Ecclesiastes 10:13)

Pronunciation: tekh-il-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8462

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 13:3 From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.
  • Genesis 41:21 But afterward you wouldn’t have known it, for they were still as thin and scrawny as before! Then I woke up.
  • Genesis 43:18 The brothers were terrified when they saw that they were being taken into Joseph’s house. “It’s because of the money someone put in our sacks last time we were here,” they said. “He plans to pretend that we stole it. Then he will seize us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys.”
  • Genesis 43:20 “Sir,” they said, “we came to Egypt once before to buy food.
  • Judges 1:1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, “Which tribe should go first to attack the Canaanites?”
  • Judges 20:18 Before the battle the Israelites went to Bethel and asked God, “Which tribe should go first to attack the people of Benjamin?” The Lord answered, “Judah is to go first.”
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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).