H8567 — תָּנָה (tânâh)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H8567
Original: תָּנָה
Transliteration: tânâh
Pronunciation: taw-naw
Part of Speech: Verb (primitive root)
Occurrences: 2 in OT (2 unique verses, all in Judges)
First Occurrence: Jdg 5:11 — "there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD"
Hapax Legomenon: No (dis legomenon — appears exactly twice)

Lexicon Definition¶

A primitive root (identical with [H8566] through the idea of attributing honor); to ascribe (praise), i.e. celebrate, commemorate:—lament, rehearse.

The lexicon notes the root shares form with H8566 (tânâh, "to hire"), but the sense here is distinct: attributing honor, recounting, commemorating.

Verb Stem Distribution¶

Both OT occurrences are Piel — the intensive active stem, fitting for the idea of repeatedly recounting or ritually commemorating.

Stem	Count	Form	Meaning
Piel	2	Imperfect 3mp / Infinitive Construct	recount, commemorate, lament

Reference	Hebrew Form	Parsing
Jdg 5:11	יְתַנּוּ	Piel Imperfect 3mp — "they shall recount"
Jdg 11:40	תַנּוֹת	Piel Infinitive Construct — "to recount / commemorate"

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Count	%
rehearse	1	50%
lament	1	50%

The KJV splits the two occurrences into opposite emotional registers — triumphant recital vs. mournful commemoration — while the underlying verb is the same act of ritual recounting.

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Judges	2	0.3

Entirely confined to Judges. Both uses occur in contexts of ritualized, communal, annual/recurring recital — one victorious (Deborah's song), one mournful (Jephthah's daughter).

Semantic Categories¶

The word's two attestations divide cleanly into two tonal poles, unified by a common action: publicly and repeatedly recounting an event as ritual memorial.

1. Ritual Recital of Victory / Righteous Acts¶

Jdg 5:11 — "there shall they rehearse the righteous acts (צִדְקוֹת) of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel"
Deborah's song; recitation occurs at the watering places, by delivered people, celebrating YHWH's saving deeds.

2. Ritual Lamentation / Commemoration of Tragedy¶

Jdg 11:40 — "the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year"
Annual four-day memorial for Jephthah's daughter; a fixed, recurring, communal act of recounting.

Both uses share: (1) a plural subject (communal), (2) a recurring/durative aspect (Piel), (3) vocal recitation, (4) a remembered event as object. The semantic core is "to recount as memorial" — praise when the memory is glorious, lament when it is tragic.

Common Collocations¶

Because the verb has only 2 occurrences, every co-occurring content word appears at 50% frequency. Theologically significant companions:

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
צְדָקָה (tsᵉdâqâh)	H6666	1x (Jdg 5:11)	object of recital — "righteous acts of YHWH"
יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh)	H3068	1x (Jdg 5:11)	the one whose deeds are rehearsed
יוֹם (yôwm)	H3117	1x (Jdg 11:40)	"days" — four days of annual lament
שָׁנֶה (shâneh)	H8141	1x (Jdg 11:40)	"year" — yearly commemoration
בַּת (bath)	H1323	1x (Jdg 11:40)	"daughters" — communal subject of lament
עַם (ʻam)	H5971	1x (Jdg 5:11)	"people of the LORD" — communal subject
קוֹל (qôwl)	H6963	1x (Jdg 5:11)	"noise/voice" — auditory context

Pattern: the verb consistently appears with (a) a communal plural subject, (b) a temporal marker of recurrence (yearly / at the watering places), and (c) an object that is a remembered event.

Word Family / Cognates¶

H8566 תָּנָה (tânâh I) — homograph root meaning "to hire" (as in Hos 8:9–10). Strong's treats these as formally identical but semantically distinct.
H866 אֶתְנָה (ʼethnâh) / H868 אֶתְנַן (ʼethnan) — "hire, wages," derived from H8566, not H8567.

Synonyms¶

No synonyms returned by search_relationships.py for H8567.

Antonyms¶

No antonyms returned by search_relationships.py for H8567.

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Semantic Field	Key Difference
סָפַר (sâphar)	H5608	recount, rehearse, declare	H5608 is the common verb for recounting deeds (e.g., Ps 9:1, 26:7); H8567 is rare and ritual/poetic
זָכַר (zâkar)	H2142	remember, commemorate	H2142 is mental remembrance; H8567 is vocalized communal recital
סָפַד (sâphad)	H5594	mourn, lament	H5594 is the standard lamentation verb; H8567 in Jdg 11:40 uniquely frames lament as recital
הָלַל (hâlal)	H1984	praise, celebrate	H1984 is the standard praise verb; H8567 focuses on narrating deeds rather than direct acclaim

KJV Translation Overlap¶

"rehearse" is also used for H1696 (dabar, Ex 17:14), H5608 (saphar, 1 Sam 17:31), H8085 Hiph. (shama, 1 Sam 8:21).
"lament" is also used for H5594 (saphad), H6969 (qun), H5091 (nahah), H421 (alah).

Semantic Domains¶

UBS / Relationship Domains¶

[002004001009006] Sing — the relationship tool groups tânâh with voiced recital/singing language, which fits the communal, spoken commemoration in Judges 5:11 and 11:40.
[002003002014] Hire — this second domain appears because H8567 is formally identical to H8566 "to hire"; it belongs to the homograph cluster noted above, not to the memorial-recital sense treated in this study.

LXX Mapping¶

Given only 2 Hebrew occurrences, the LXX renderings are likewise singular:

Greek Equivalent	Reference	Notes
διηγέομαι (diēgeomai) G1334	Jdg 5:11 (LXX A/B)	"narrate, recount" — captures the rehearsal sense
θρηνεῖν (thrēnein) G2354	Jdg 11:40 (LXX)	"to lament, sing a dirge" — captures the mourning sense

The LXX translators, like the KJV, split the two tonal registers. No single Greek verb consistently bridges H8567 — because the Hebrew word itself spans a range the Greek handled with context-specific equivalents.