H8507 H8507
Tochen (with conjunction), place name: a town in the territory of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:32)
A place name in Simeon's territorial allotment, appearing in 1 Chronicles 4:32. The name may derive from a root meaning 'measure' or 'standard,' though its etymology remains uncertain. Like many Simeonite settlements, this town is otherwise unattested, its location lost to history. The Septuagint variants reflect ancient translators' uncertainty about the name. It survives only in Chronicles' careful preservation of tribal territorial lists.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A Simeonite town preserved in the Chronicler's territorial records, this place name has left no other trace in biblical or extra-biblical sources. The conjunction indicates it appears in a series of towns marking Simeon's settlements, part of Chronicles' interest in documenting tribal land claims even when the physical locations were no longer clearly identifiable in the post-exilic period. 1×
AR["وَ-توكِن"]·ben["ও-তোখন"]·DE["[ותכן]"]·EN["and-Token"]·FR["[ותכן]"]·heb["ו-תכן"]·HI["और-तोकेन"]·ID["dan-Token"]·IT["[ותכן]"]·jav["lan-Tokhèn"]·KO["그-와-도건"]·PT["e-Token"]·RU["и-Тохен"]·ES["y-Tojen"]·SW["na-Tokeni"]·TR["ve-Token"]·urd["اور-توکن"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. תֹּ֫כֶן n.pr.loc. in Simeon, 1 Ch 4:32; Θοκκα, A Θοχχαν, 𝔊L Ενθεκεμ.