תִּיכוֹןtîykôwn

middle (Exodus 26:28; Judges 7:19; Ezekiel 42:5; Ezekiel 42:6; Exodus 36:33)

Pronunciation: tee-kone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8484

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 26:28 The middle crossbar, attached halfway up the frames, will run all the way from one end of the Tabernacle to the other.
  • Exodus 36:33 He made the middle crossbar to attach halfway up the frames; it ran all the way from one end of the Tabernacle to the other.
  • Judges 7:19 It was just after midnight, after the changing of the guard, when Gideon and the 100 men with him reached the edge of the Midianite camp. Suddenly, they blew the rams’ horns and broke their clay jars.
  • 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 6:8 The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the Temple. There were winding stairs going up to the second floor, and another flight of stairs between the second and third floors.
  • 2 Kings 20:4 But before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, this message came to him from the Lord:
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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).