Tikhon תִּיכוֹן

Tikhon (Hebrew תִּיכוֹן, Strong's H8484) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “middle”. It occurs 11 times in 9 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Tikhon, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 26:28
  And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.The central crossbar in the middle of the frames shall extend from one end to the other.
• Exodus 36:33
  And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.He made the central crossbar to run through the center of the frames, from one end to the other.

Judges

• Judges 7:19
  So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 6:6
  The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
• 1 Kings 6:8
  The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 20:4
  And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 41:7
  And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
• Ezekiel 42:5
  Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
• Ezekiel 42:6
  For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).