Lexical Definition

‎תַּחַשׁ‎ tachash (takh'-ash) leather ^H:N-M
probably of foreign derivation

badger.

• a (clean) animal with fur, probably a species of antelope

1) a kind of leather, skin, or animal hide
1a) perhaps the animal yielding the skin
1a1) perhaps the badger or dugong, dolphin, or sheep, or a now extinct animal

See Greek: ὑακίνθινος · ὑάκινθος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎תַּ֫חַשׁ‎ noun masculine ta—aš, a kind of leather or skin, and perhaps the animal yielding it (probably the dugong, compare Arabic dolphin, Thes¹⁵⁰⁰ Di-Ry^{Exod 25:5} Post^{Hast. DB BADGER}; Assyrian ta—šu (Dl^{Baer Ezech. xvi}), for which Dl^{Proi. 77 ff.; HWB 705} conjecture meaning sheep(skin); Bondi^{Egyptiaca 1 ff.} compare Egyptian ¾µ´, leather; see summary of views M'Lean-Shiply^{Ency. Bib. BADGERS' SKINS}); — absolute ‎׳‎‎ת‎ Num 4:6 +, ‎תָּחַשׁ‎ vNum 4:8 +; plural ‎תְּחָשִׁים‎ Exod 25:5 +; — leather used for (woman's) sandals Ezek 16:10 elsewhere for cover of tabernacle Num 4:25, ‎׳‎‎עוֺר ת‎ vNum 4:6 vNum 4:8 vNum 4:10 vNum 4:11 vNum 4:12 vNum 4:14, ‎עֹרֹת (הַ)תְּחָשִׁים‎ Exod 25:5; Exod 26:14; Exod 35:7; Exod 35:23; Exod 36:19; Exod 39:34 (all P).

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