תְּחוֹת
te.chot
under
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# תְּחוֹת (Tachath) — "Under" The Hebrew word תְּחוֹת (tachath) is a preposition meaning "under," appearing 240 times throughout the biblical text. As a directional and positional term, it indicates location or position beneath something else, either literally or figuratively. Its high frequency of occurrence demonstrates its fundamental importance as a spatial marker in Hebrew biblical language. The word's range extends beyond simple physical positioning. Given its substantial number of occurrences, tachath functions as a core preposition that helps establish spatial relationships essential to biblical narrative and instruction. It appears in contexts ranging from concrete descriptions—such as objects placed under other objects—to more abstract uses where "under" conveys subjection, subordination, or dependency. This versatility made it an indispensable tool for Hebrew speakers to communicate both physical arrangement and relational hierarchy. The prevalence of this term reflects how spatial language serves as the foundation for expressing more complex ideas in biblical Hebrew. By occurring in roughly one-fifth of biblical chapters or passages, תְּחוֹת demonstrates that basic directional vocabulary was consistently needed to convey meaning in religious, legal, and narrative contexts. Understanding this word as foundational spatial terminology helps readers grasp how ancient Hebrew organized and communicated about position and relationship.
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Occurrences in Scripture
240 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Nehemiah 2:14Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
Job 9:13“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Job 18:16His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
Job 20:12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
Job 26:8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
Job 28:5As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
Job 28:24For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
Job 30:7They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles .
Job 37:3He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Job 40:21He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
Job 41:11Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
Job 41:30His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Psalms 8:6You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psalms 18:9He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 18:36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
Psalms 18:38I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Psalms 18:39For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psalms 18:47even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
Psalms 106:42Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.
Psalms 45:5Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
Psalms 47:3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
Psalms 47:3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
Psalms 66:17I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
Psalms 91:4He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
Psalms 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.
Psalms 144:2my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
Proverbs 22:27If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Proverbs 30:21“For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up:
Proverbs 30:21“For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up:
Ecclesiastes 1:3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:9That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 4:1Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:3Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Ecclesiastes 5:18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.