Strong's #2912: tachan (pronounced taw-khan')
a primitive root; to grind meal; hence, to be a concubine (that being their employment):--grind(-er).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ṭâchan
1) (Qal) to grind, crush
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 8 times:
Exodus 32:20: "they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed"
Numbers 11:8: "And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat"
Deuteronomy 9:21: "and burnt and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small"
Judges 16:21: "to Gaza, him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house."
Job 31:10: "Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon"
Ecclesiastes 12:3: "shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few,"
Isaiah 3:15: "What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord"
Isaiah 47:2: "Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare"