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תָּוֶךְ H8432
H8432 is the Hebrew word תָּוֶךְ, transliterated tâvek and said taw'-vek. The King James Version most often renders it midst.
What it means
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre.
Where it comes from
from an unused root meaning to sever.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 336 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: among(-st), [idiom] between, half, [idiom] (there-, where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), [idiom] out (of), [idiom] through, [idiom] with(-in).
Verses using תָּוֶךְ
The first 40 of 354 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 1:6 · KJV
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 2:9 · KJV
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:3 · KJV
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3:8 · KJV
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis 9:21 · KJV
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 15:10 · KJV
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Genesis 18:24 · KJV
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis 18:26 · KJV
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Genesis 19:29 · KJV
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Genesis 23:6 · KJV
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Genesis 23:10 · KJV
And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 35:2 · KJV
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Genesis 37:7 · KJV
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Genesis 40:20 · KJV
And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
Genesis 42:5 · KJV
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Exodus 2:5 · KJV
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Exodus 3:2 · KJV
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Exodus 3:4 · KJV
And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Exodus 9:24 · KJV
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Exodus 11:4 · KJV
And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
Exodus 12:31 · KJV
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
Exodus 14:16 · KJV
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:22 · KJV
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus 14:23 · KJV
And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exodus 14:27 · KJV
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:29 · KJV
But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus 15:19 · KJV
For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 24:16 · KJV
And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Exodus 24:18 · KJV
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 26:28 · KJV
And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
Exodus 28:1 · KJV
And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
Exodus 28:32 · KJV
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
Exodus 28:33 · KJV
And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
Exodus 29:45 · KJV
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Exodus 29:46 · KJV
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
Exodus 33:11 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
Exodus 36:33 · KJV
And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
Exodus 39:3 · KJV
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Exodus 39:23 · KJV
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
Exodus 39:25 · KJV
And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
Common questions
What does Strong's H8432 mean?
H8432 is the Hebrew word תָּוֶךְ (tâvek), meaning a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre.
How is H8432 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it midst (152 times), among (112 times), out of the midst (23 times), within (19 times), in (7 times), among others.
How many times does H8432 appear in the Bible?
תָּוֶךְ (tâvek) is tagged in 354 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H8432 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root meaning to sever.
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