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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Hebrew - English Dictionary

H8478 - Was

Strong's No.:H8478

Hebrew:תַּחַת

Transliteration:tachath

Phonetic:takh'-ath

Word Origin:From the same as H8430

Bible Usage:{as} {beneath} X-(idiom) {flat} in ({-stead}) (same) place (where . . . {is}) {room} for . . . {sake} stead {of} {under} X-(idiom) {unto} X-(idiom) when . . . was {mine} {whereas} [where-] {fore} with.

Part of Speech:Noun Masculine

Strongs
Definition:

the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix {underneath }) in lieu {of} etc.


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

1. the under part, beneath, instead of, as, for, for the sake of, flat, unto, where, whereas n m

a. the under part adv accus

b. beneath prep

c. under, beneath

1. at the foot of (idiom)

2. sweetness, subjection, woman, being burdened or oppressed (fig)

3. of subjection or conquest

d. what is under one, the place in which one stands

1. in one's place, the place in which one stands (idiom with reflexive pronoun)

2. in place of, instead of (in transferred sense)

3. in place of, in exchange or return for (of things mutually interchanged) conj

e. instead of, instead of that

f. in return for that, because that in compounds

g. in, under, into the place of (after verbs of motion)

h. from under, from beneath, from under the hand of, from his place, under, beneath


Bible References:
Was

Translation
Occurrences:
as ( 1 )
Because ( 13 )
behalf ( 1 )
beneath ( 2 )
flat ( 2 )
for ( 59 )
in ( 3 )
instead ( 20 )
of ( 17 )
place ( 16 )
places ( 1 )
room ( 10 )
rooms ( 2 )
sake ( 2 )
stead ( 89 )
steads ( 1 )
that ( 1 )
under ( 193 )
unto ( 1 )
was ( 1 )
where ( 2 )
whereas ( 3 )
Wherefore ( 1 )
with ( 1 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.