Judges 16:21
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Grind
Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
Luke 20:18
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Read in context →Isaiah
2 occurrences in 2 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where grind appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
טָחַן
ṭâchan · taw-khan'
4 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to grind meal; hence, to be a concubine (that being their employment)
Strong's KJV usage: grind(-er).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 16:21Strong's last: Isaiah 47:2
Open full H2912 profile →λικμάω
likmáō · lik-mah'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to winnow, i.e. (by analogy), to triturate
Strong's KJV usage: :--grind to powder.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 21:44Strong's last: Luke 20:18
Open full G3039 profile →טְחוֹן
ṭᵉchôwn · tekh-one'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a hand mill; hence, a millstone
Strong's KJV usage: to grind.
Strong's first: Lamentations 5:13Strong's last: Lamentations 5:13
Open full H2911 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
1 occurrence match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
G3039
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
grind
GRIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive ground. [This word, if n is radical, may be allied to rend; if not, it coincides with grate; to make smooth, as mollis in Latin , allied to molo.]
1. To break and reduce to fine particles or powder by friction; to comminute by attrition; to triturate.
Take the millstones and grind meal. Isaiah 16:1.
We say, to grind meal, but this is an elliptical phrase. The true phrase is, to grind corn to meal.
2. To break and reduce to small pieces by the teeth.
3. To sharpen by rubbing or friction; to wear off the substance of a metallic instrument, and reduce it to a sharp edge by the friction of a stone; as, to grind an ax or scythe.
4. To make smooth; to polish by friction; as, to grind glass.
5. To rub one against another.
Harsh sounds--and the grinding of one stone against another, make a shivering or horror in the body and set the teeth on edge.
6. To oppress by severe exactions; to afflict cruelly; to harass; as, to grind the faces of the poor Isaiah 3:15.
7. To crush in pieces; to ruin. Matthew 21:44.
8. To grate; as grinding pains.
GRIND, verb intransitive To perform the operation of grinding; to move a mill.
1. To be moved or rubbed together, as in the operation of grinding; as the grinding jaws.
2. To be ground or pulverized by friction.
Corn will not grind well before it is dry.
3. To be polished and made smooth by friction. Glass grinds smooth.
4. To be sharpened by grinding. Steel grinds to a fine edge.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.