Bible word study

Tachath (Strong’s H8478): Meaning in the Bible

Tachath (תַּחַת) is the Hebrew word numbered H8478 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc. In the King James Bible it is translated as, beneath, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room.

• Original wordתַּחַת
• Transliterationtachath
• Pronunciationtakh'-ath
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH8478
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the same as H8430;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tachath appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tachath (H8478) stands behind 23 English renderings in 23 verses across 12 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (6), Job (3), Jeremiah (3).

How the King James Bible renders Tachath, by count

• under5 of 23 (22 percent)
• place3 of 23 (13 percent)
• beneath2 of 23 (9 percent)
• for2 of 23 (9 percent)
• as1 of 23 (4 percent)
• flat1 of 23 (4 percent)

Three places to read Tachath

• Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
• Exodus 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
• Job 34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tachath in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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