Quick Definition
leather
Strong's Definition
a (clean) animal with fur, probably a species of antelope
Derivation: probably of foreign derivation;
KJV Usage: badger.
TWOT Reference: 2503
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
תַּ֫חַשׁ (ta.chash) — leather. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Aquatic Animals
dugong = large animal of about 3 meters (10 feet) long, which lives in the sea, usually in small herds of twelve to fifteen animals; they swim slowly and feed in fairly shallow water on underwater weeds near mouths of rivers; they sometimes even move a short distance up the river; they need to come to the surface every few minutes to breathe, and they sometimes come out of the water to lie on rocks or sandbanks;◄ |iDugong dugong|i*; ► their skins make very good leather
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
תַּ֫חַשׁ n.m. taḫaš, a kind of leather or skin, and perh. the animal yielding it base