Strong's #8432: tavek (pronounced taw'-vek)
from an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre:--among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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tâvek
1) midst, middle
1a) midst, middle
1b) into, through (after verbs of motion)
1c) among (of a number of persons)
1d) between (of things arranged by twos)
1e) from among (as to take or separate etc)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to sever
Usage:
This word is used 419 times:
1 Kings 14:7: "of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made"
2 Kings 4:13: "And she answered, I dwell among mine own people."
2 Kings 6:20: "their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria."
2 Kings 9:2: "of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner"
2 Kings 11:2: "the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain;"
2 Kings 23:9: "in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren."
1 Chronicles 11:14: "And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD"
1 Chronicles 11:22: "and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day."
1 Chronicles 16:1: "the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched"
1 Chronicles 21:6: "and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable"
2 Chronicles 6:13: "cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down"
2 Chronicles 7:7: "Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house"
2 Chronicles 20:14: "came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;"
2 Chronicles 22:11: "the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain,"
2 Chronicles 23:20: "from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's"
2 Chronicles 32:4: "the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings"
Nehemiah 4:11: "till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work"
Nehemiah 4:22: "Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard"
Nehemiah 6:10: "in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors"
Nehemiah 7:4: "was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built."
Nehemiah 9:11: "the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest"
Esther 4:1: "sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter"
Esther 9:28: "and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail"
Job 1:6: "and Satan came also among"
Job 2:1: "and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD."
Job 2:8: "to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes."
Job 15:19: "and no stranger passed among"
Job 20:13: "Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:"
Job 42:15: "and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren."
Psalms 22:14: "is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels."
Psalms 22:22: "I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise"
Psalms 40:8: "thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."
Psalms 40:10: "I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:"
Psalms 57:4: "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth"
Psalms 57:6: "they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah."
Psalms 68:25: "went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels."
Psalms 109:30: "the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude."
Psalms 116:19: "In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 135:9: "Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants."
Psalms 136:11: "And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth forever:"
Psalms 136:14: "And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth forever:"
Psalms 137:2: "our harps upon the willows in the midst"
Psalms 143:4: "overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate."
Proverbs 1:14: "Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:"
Proverbs 4:21: "depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart."
Proverbs 5:14: "almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly."
Proverbs 5:15: "waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well."
Proverbs 8:20: "I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:"
Proverbs 17:2: "that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren."
Proverbs 22:13: "There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets."
