Strong H84812 sensesתַּחְתּוֹן

The 2 senses of Strong H8481

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H8481 appears in 13 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. lowerH8481Hlower, lowest, nether8 verses · 1 Kings, Isaiah, Ezekiel
2. Lower (Beth Horon)H8481GCombined with bet cho.ron (בֵּית חוֹרֹן "Beth-horon" H1032)5 verses · 4 books

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• lower5
• nether5
• lowest2
• nethermost1

First verses

1. Joshua 16:3
   And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth–horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
2. Joshua 18:13
   And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth–el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth–adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth–horon.
3. 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.
4. 1 Kings 9:17
   And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth–horon the nether,
5. 1 Chronicles 7:24
   (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth–horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sherah.)
6. 2 Chronicles 8:5
   Also he built Beth–horon the upper, and Beth–horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
7. Isaiah 22:9
   Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
8. Ezekiel 40:18
   And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
9. Ezekiel 40:19
   Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Ezekiel 43:14
    And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.