2909. tachah
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tachah: To humble, to subdue, to bring low

Original Word: טָחה
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: tachah
Pronunciation: tah-KHAH
Phonetic Spelling: (taw-khaw')
KJV: (bow-)shot
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. to stretch a bow, as an archer

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
bowshot

A primitive root; to stretch a bow, as an archer -- (bow-)shot.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to hurl, shoot
NASB Translation
bowshot* (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[טָחָה] verb hurl, shoot (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic spread, extend, carry far with, e.g. a ball Lane1832c) — only

Pil. Participle (Ges§ 75 R 18) plural construct הַרְחֵק כִּמְטַחֲוֵי קֶשֶׁת Genesis 21:16 (E), literally making distant like shooters of a bow = about a bowshot off.

Forms and Transliterations
כִּמְטַחֲוֵ֣י כמטחוי kim·ṭa·ḥă·wê kimtachaVei kimṭaḥăwê
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Englishman's Concordance
Genesis 21:16
HEB: מִנֶּ֗גֶד הַרְחֵק֙ כִּמְטַחֲוֵ֣י קֶ֔שֶׁת כִּ֣י
NAS: opposite him, about a bowshot away,
KJV: [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said,
INT: against away shot arch for

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 2909
1 Occurrence


kim·ṭa·ḥă·wê — 1 Occ.

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