adverb accusative and

preposition underneath, below, instead of (so Arabic , Sabean תחת, Ethiopic Phoenician תחת (Lzb³⁸⁵); Biblical Aramaic ᵑ7, תְּחוֺת, Palmyrene in מן לתחת Tariff Genesis 1:4 (Cooke³²⁰), Syriac ); — 1 as

adverb accusative Genesis 49:25 (= Deuteronomy 33:13) the deep רֹבֶצֶת תָּ֑חַת that coucheth beneath; more usually with מִן, מִתָּחַת literally off (מִן

1c) the under part = beneath, Exodus 20:4 (= Deuteronomy 5:8) בָּאָרֶץ מִתָּ֑חַת (so Deuteronomy 4:39; Joshua 2: 1 Kings 8:23 [both D²], Isaiah 51:6), Deuteronomy 33:27; Judges 7:8; Amos 2:9; Isaiah 14:9; Job 18:16; Ezekiel 47:1b

II. as

preposition; so construct, and with suffix (usually in the plural, and so literally in the parts underneath) תַּחְתַּי Habakkuk 3:16+, חַתֵּנִי (compare בַּעֲדֵנִי, עוֺדֶנִּי: Ges^{§ 103d}) 2 Samuel 22:37,40,48 (Psalm 18:37; 18:40; 18:48 תַּחְתָּ֑י); תַּחְתֶּיךָ; תַּחְתָּיו (Kt תַּחְתּוֺ 2 Samuel 2:23; 2 Samuel 3:12; 2 Samuel 16:8; Job 9:13), תֵּחְתֶּיהָ Leviticus 13:23 16t., תַּחְתֶּ֫נָּה (compare אֵינֶנָּה, עוֺדֶנָּה) Genesis 2:21; תַּחְתֵּינוּ 1 Samuel 14:9; Psalm 47:4; תַּחְתֵּיהֶם Joshua 2:14; Amos 2:13; תַּחְתֵּיהֶם Numbers 16:31; 1 Kings 20:24; 1 Chronicles 4:41; 1 Chronicles 5:22; 2Chronicles 12:10 (for תַּחְתָּם 1 Kings 14:27), תַּחְתָּם Deuteronomy 2:12 10t., תַּחְתֵּקהֶן Jeremiah 28:13; —

1 under, beneath, Genesis 7:19 הַשָּׁמַיִם תַּחַת כָּלֿ under the whole heaven (so Deuteronomy 2:25; Deuteronomy 4:19; Job 28:24; Job 37:3; Job 41:3; Daniel 9:12), Dan 18:4 הָעֵץ ׳ת, Dan 21:15; Dan 24:2+ often; Job 30:14 שׁוֺאָה ׳תּ under the crash they roll themselves against me; הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ ׳ת Ecclesiastes 1:3,9,13 #NAME? Ecclesiastes (so in Phoenician, Cooke^{4. 7; 5. 12}). With לְ2Chronicles 4:3 תַּחַת לוֺ, Songs 2:6 = Songs 8:3 לְראֹשִׁי ׳ת. Idiomatic

a. תַּחַת הָהָר at the foot of the mountain, Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:11, so Deuteronomy 3:17 ׳אַשְׁדֹּת הַמִּסְגָּה ת Joshua 11:3,17 +; figurative Psalm 18:37 תַּחְתָּ֑י תַּרְחִיד אְעָדַי thou broadenest mysteps under me, Job 36:15 רַחַב לאֹ מוּצָק תַּחְתֶּיךָ (so read for תחתיה, Di Bu) breadth unstraitened is beneath thee.

b. ׳הַלָּשׁוֺן ת, of something held there as a dainty morsel, and ready, when needed, to be brought out, figurative of sweetness Songs 4:11, of evil Psalm 10:7 ׳לְשֹׁנוֺ עָמָל וָאָוֶן ת, Job 20:12 (so שְׁפָתֵימוֺ ׳ת Psalm 140:4), of praise Psalm 66:17 לְשֹׁנוֺ ׳וְרוֺמַם ת (synonym בִּגְרוֺנָם Psalm 149:6).

c. ׳תַּחַת פ: (a) of subjection, Psalm 18:40 תַּחְתָּ֑י תַּכְּ רִיעַ קָמַי, Psalm 18:48 (compare Psalm 47:4; Psalm 144:2), Psalm 45:6; Job 9:13. (b) of a woman, אִישָׁתּ ׳ת, i.e. under his authority, Numbers 5:19,20,29, so Ezekiel 23:5 תַּחְתַּי being under me = being mine (figurative of Israel as ׳יs spouse), compare ὕπανδρος Romans 7:2, and Qor 66:10. (c) of being burdened or oppressed under, Isaiah 24:5 the earth יָֽשְׁבֶיהָ ׳הָֽנְפָה ת, Proverbs 30:21 שָׁלוֺשׁ רָגְזָה אֶרֶץ ׳ת, Proverbs 30:22; Proverbs 30:23; Habakkuk 3:7 אָיֶן ׳ת i.e. (si vera 1.) suffering under calamity.

d. ׳יַד פ ׳ת, of authority or control, Genesis 41:35 יַד מַּרְעֹה ׳וְיִצְבְּרוּ בָר ת; Judges 3:30 (compare Psalm 106:42), 1 Samuel 21:4; 1 Samuel 21:5 (strike out אֶל; dittograph חֹל), v.1 Samuel 21:9; Isaiah 3:6.

e. ׳רַגְלֵי פ ׳ת, of subjection or conquest, Psalm 8:7 רַגְלָיו כֹּל ׳שַׁתָּה ת, Psalm 18:39; Psalm 47:4; Lamentations 3:34, compare Malachi 3:31.

2 what is under one, the place in which one stands: hence as accusative,

a. with reflexive pronoun, idiomatic, in one's place, where one stands, Exodus 16:29 תַּחְתָּיו שְׁבוּ אִישׁ abide every one in his place, Leviticus 13:23,28; Joshua 5:8; Joshua 6:5,20; Judges 7:21; 1 Samuel 14:9 וְעָמַדְנוּ תַחְתֵּינוּ we will remain where we are, 2 Samuel 2:23 וַיָּמָת תַּחְתָּו he died where he was (compare Jeremiah 38:9 [read וּמֵת]), Jeremiah 7:10; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 46:7; Amos 2:13; Habakkuk 3:16 וְתַחְתַּי אֶרְגָּ֑ז I tremble where I stand, Zechariah 12:6; Zechariah 14:10; Job 36:20; Job 40:12 תַּחְתָּם

b. in transferred sense, in place of, instead of: (a) Genesis 2:18; Genesis 4:25 הֶבֶל ׳ת instead of Abel, Genesis 22:13 בְּנוֺ ׳ת, Genesis 30:2 אלהיס אנכי ׳הֲת (compare Genesis 50:19), Genesis 44:33; 2 Samuel 19:1 + often; Job 16:4; Isaiah 3:24; Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah 61:3,7; of one succeeding to the place of another, תַּחְתָּיו וַיִּמְחֹ Genesis 36:33-49 1 Kings 8:20; 1 Kings 11:43; 1 Kings 14:20 + often, Deuteronomy 2:12,21 וַיֵָּֽשְׁבוּ תַחְתָּם, Leviticus 16:32; 1 Kings 2:35 +; Psalm 45:17 in place of thy fathers (whom thou mayest therefore forget) will be thy children. compare in Ph CIS^i.3.9 (Cooke³⁰). Sq. infinitive Isaiah 60:15 הֱיוֺתֵח ׳ת instead of thy being . . . Peculiarly Job 34:26 (si vera lectio)= as if they were, like; but text very dubious; Bi Bu תָּחֵת חֲמָתוֺ רְשָׁעִ֑ים his wrath breaketh in pieces the wicked. (b) in particular, of things mutually interchanged, in place of, in exchange or return for: Genesis 30:15 דּוּדָאֵי בְנֵח ׳ת in return, for thy son's love-apples, Exodus 21:23) גֶפְשׁlife for life, Exodus 21:24; Exodus 21:25; Exodus 21:26; Exodus 21:27; Exodus 21:36; Exodus 22:37, Joshua 2:14 נַפְשֵׁנוּ תַחְתֵּיכֶם לָמוּת, 1 Samuel 2:20; 1 Kings 20:39 נפשׁו ׳נפשׁך ת, 1 Kings 20:42 (compare 2 Kings 10:24), 2 Kings 21:2; Isaiah 43:3,4; often with verbs of requiting, Genesis 44:4 טוֺבָם ׳לָ֫מּה שִׁלַּמְתֶּם רָעָה ת why have ye rewarded evil in exchange for good ? 1 Samuel 25:21; 2 Samuel 16:12; 2 Samuel 19:22; Psalm 35:12 טוֺבָה ׳יְשַׁלְּמוּנִי דָעָה ת, Psalm 38:21a; Psalm 109:4; Psalm 109:5; Proverbs 17:3 +; Jeremiah 5:19 תַּחַת מֶה in return for what? (compare עַלמֶֿה Jeremiah 22:8; Deuteronomy 29:23; 1 Kings 9:8). So followed by infinitive Psalm 38:21b. 3 as

conjunction: a. תַּחַת אֲשֶׁר: (a) instead of that (German. anstatt dass), Deuteronomy 28:62 הֱיִיתֶם ׳א ׳ת instead of that ye were..., instead of your being.., Ezekiel 36:34. (b) in return for (the fact) that, because that (ᵐ5 ἀνθ’ ὧν Amos 1:3 + often), Numbers 25:13 ׳אֲשֶׁר קִנָּא לא ׳ת, Deuteronomy 21:14; Deuteronomy 22:29; Deuteronomy 28:47; 1 Samuel 26:21; 2 Kings 22:17 2Chronicles 34:25; Isaiah 53:12; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 50:7; 2Chronicles 21:12.

b. תַּחַת כִּי Deuteronomy 4:37 (but ? read : וֶַ˜תּחִי as end of Deuteronomy 4:36), Proverbs 1:29. compare עֵקֶב אֲשֶׁר (כִּיׅ.

III compounds: —

1 אֶלתַּֿחַת, after a verb of motion:

a. (in) under, Judges 6:19 וַיּוֺצֵא אֶלֿ הָאֵלָה ׳ת, 1 Kings 8:6 ("" 2 Chronicles 5:7), Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 38:11 (on 1 Samuel 21:5 see

II. 1 d); after קָרָא Zechariah 3:10: so ׳לְ ׳אֶלתֿ Ezekiel 10:2.

b. into the place of, Leviticus 14:42.

2 מִתַּחַת (= ὑπ’ ἐκ):

a. alone, from under, from beneath as מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם Genesis 1:7, and especially after such verbs as שִׁחֵת Genesis 6:17, מָחֶה Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 9:14; Deuteronomy 25:19; Deuteronomy 29:19; 2 Kings 14:27, הֶאֲבִיד Deuteronomy 7:24, compare Lamentations 3:66; Ezekiel 47:1 a מִמְּתַּן ׳מִתּ הַבַּיִת, Proverbs 22:27 לָ֫מָּה יִקַח מִשְׁכָּֽבְּךָ מִּתַּחְתֶּיךָ; Exodus 6:6,7 סִבְלוֺת מִצְרַיִם ׳מִתּ, Hosea 4:12 אֱלֹהֵיהֶם ׳וַיִּזְנוּ מִתּ (compare

II. 1 c a, b); ׳יַד פ ׳מִתּ (compare

II. 1 d) from under the hand (power) of ... Exodus 18:10; 2 Kings 8:20,22; 2 Kings 13:5; 2 Kings 17:7 +; מִתַּחְתָּיו (compare

II. 2 a) from his place Exodus 10:23; Zechariah 6:12. Rarely = תַּחַת or ׳מִתַּחַת לְ, Genesis 1:9 (P) Ezekiel 1:8; Ezekiel 42:9; Ezekiel 46:23; Job 26:5.

b. ׳מִתַּחַת לְ (opposed to ׳מִמַּעַל לְ) under, beneath: Genesis 1:17 ׳הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתּ לָרָקִיעַ, Exodus 20:4 הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת לָאָרֶץ (so Deuteronomy 4:18; Deuteronomy 5:8), Judges 3:16 לְמַדָּיו ׳מִתּ, Jeremiah 38:12 +; of locality, Genesis 35:8 לְבֵיתְאֵל ׳מִתּ, 1 Samuel 7:11; 1 Kings 4:12.

c. ׳לְמִתַּחַת לְ ( compare מִן

9b), id quod ׳מִתַּחַת לְ 1 Kings 7:32.