תַּחְתּוֹןtachtôwn

lower, lowest (Joshua 16:3; Isaiah 22:9; Ezekiel 42:5; Ezekiel 42:6; Ezekiel 40:18)

Pronunciation: takh-tone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8481

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 16:3 Then it descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer and over to the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Joshua 18:13 From there the boundary went south to Luz (that is, Bethel) and proceeded down to Ataroth-addar on the hill that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.
  • 1 Kings 6:6 The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7 1⁄2 feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10 1⁄2 feet wide. The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.
  • 1 Kings 9:17 So Solomon rebuilt the city of Gezer.) He also built up the towns of Lower Beth-horon,
  • 1 Chronicles 7:24 He had a daughter named Sheerah. She built the towns of Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.
  • 2 Chronicles 8:5 He fortified the towns of Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, rebuilding their walls and installing barred gates.
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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).