תחת

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See also: תּחת

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
ת־ח־ת (t-ḥ-t)

Related to Arabic تَحْتَ (taḥta), Ge'ez ታሕተ (taḥtä), Ugaritic 𐎚𐎈𐎚 (tḥt /⁠taḥta⁠/).

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈta.χat/
(Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈta.xas/,
(Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ħat/
(Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈtæ.ħæθ/
(Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ħaθ/
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Preposition

תַּחַת • (tákhat)

below
underneath
in lieu of
instead of
- Tanach, Genesis 22:13, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
  וַיִּשָּׂא אַבְרָהָם אֶת עֵינָיו וַיַּרְא וְ הִנֵּה אַיִל אַחַר נֶאֱחַז בַּסְּבַךְ בְּקַרְנָיו וַ יֵּלֶךְ אַבְרָהָם וַיִּקַּח אֶת הָ אַיִל וַיַּעֲלֵהוּ לְעֹלָה תַּחַת בְּנוֹ׃
  And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
- Tanach, Esther 2:4, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
  וְהַ נַּעֲרָה אֲשֶׁר תִּיטַב בְּ עֵינֵי הַ מֶּלֶךְ תִּמְלֹךְ תַּחַת וַשְׁתִּי וַיִּיטַב הַ דָּבָר בְּ עֵינֵי הַ מֶּלֶךְ וַ יַּעַשׂ כֵּן׃
  and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti.’ And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
as successor to

Inflection

Inflection table

Personal-pronoun- including forms	Singular		Plural
Non-personal-pronoun-including form				תַּחַת (tákhat)
Personal-pronoun- including forms	Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
First person	תַּחְתַּי (takhtái), תַּחְתֵּנִי (takhténi)		תַּחְתֵּינוּ (takhtéinu)
Second person	תַּחְתֶּיךָ (takhtékha)	תחתייך / תַּחְתַּיִךְ (takhtáyikh)	תַּחְתֵּיכָם (takhteikhém)	תַּחְתֵּיכֶן (takhteikhén)
Third person	תַּחְתָּיו (takhtáv)	תַּחְתֶּיהָ (takhtéha)	תַּחְתֵּיהֶם (takhteihém), תַּחְתָּם (takhtám)	תַּחְתֵּיהֶן (takhteihén), תַּחְתָּן (takhtán)

Noun

תַּחַת • (tákhat) m

Derived terms

חור תחת / חֹר תַּחַת (khor tákhat)
שַׁק לִי בַּתַּחַת (shaq li batáḥat)

Descendants

Yiddish: תּחת (tokhes)
- → Dutch: toges
- → English: toches, tush, tushie
- → German: Toches
- → Spanish: tujes

References

H8478 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Yiddish

Noun

תחת • (tokhes)

(nonstandard) Unpointed form of תּחת (tokhes).

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