Lexicon tachash: perhaps porpoise (a kind of leather or skin) Original Word: תָּ֫חַשׁPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: tachash Phonetic Spelling: (takh'-ash) Short Definition: porpoise NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionperhaps porpoise (a kind of leather or skin) NASB Translationporpoise (12), porpoise skin (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. תַּ֫חַשׁ noun masculine ta—aš, a kind of leather or skin, and perhaps the animal yielding it (probably the dugong, compare Arabic  dolphin, Thes 1500 Di-Ry Exodus 25:5 Post Hast. DB BADGER; Assyrian ta—šu (Dl Baer Ezech. xvi), for which Dl Proi. 77 ff.; HWB 705 conjecture meaning sheep(skin); Bondi Egyptiaca 1 ff. compare Egyptian ¾µ´, leather; see summary of views M'Lean-Shiply Ency. Bib. BADGERS' SKINS); — absolute ׳ת Numbers 4:6 +, תָּחַשׁ Numbers 4:8 +; plural תְּחָשִׁים Exodus 25:5 +; — leather used for (woman's) sandals Ezekiel 16:10; elsewhere for cover of tabernacle Numbers 4:25, ׳עוֺר ת Numbers 4:6; Numbers 4:8; Numbers 4:10; Numbers 4:11; Numbers 4:12; Numbers 4:14, עֹרֹת (הַ)תְּחָשִׁים Exodus 25:5; Exodus 26:14; Exodus 35:7,23; Exodus 36:19; Exodus 39:34 (all P). Strong's Tahrea Probably of foreign derivation; a (clean) animal with fur, probably a species of antelope -- badger. |
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