תָּקַןtâqan
תָּקַן: become straight
Pronunciation: taw-kan' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8626
Meanings
Qal: bent (Ecclesiastes 1:15)
Pi`el: make straight, put straight, arrange in order, (opposed to עִוָּה) (Ecclesiastes 7:13; Ecclesiastes 12:9)
ᵑ7: be in order
Hoph`al: I was established (Daniel 4:33)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15 What is wrong cannot be made right. What is missing cannot be recovered.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13 Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked?
- Ecclesiastes 12:9 Keep this in mind: The Teacher was considered wise, and he taught the people everything he knew. He listened carefully to many proverbs, studying and classifying them.
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).