Strong's #8626: taqan (pronounced taw-kan')

a primitive root; to equalize, i.e. straighten (intransitive or transitive); figuratively, to compose:--set in order, make straight.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tâqan

1) to equalise, make straight, become straight

1a) (Qal) to become straight

1b) (Piel) to make straight, put straight, arrange in order, set in order

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Ecclesiastes 1:15: "That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered."
Ecclesiastes 7:13: "for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?"
Ecclesiastes 12:9: "the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs."