תְּקֵן ch. same , to be firm, stand (corresp. to b. h. כּוּן, כָּנן). Targ. Ps. XC, 17 יִתְקְנַן ed. Ven. (Ms. יְתַקְנַן; ed. Wil. יִתּקְּנוּן Ithpa.). Targ. Prov. XXII, 18 נִיתְקְנִין (ed. Wil. נִתּקְּנוּן Ithpa.).
Pa. - תַּקֵּין 1) to establish. Targ. Ps. IX, 8. Ib. LXXIV, 16 Ms. (ed. Af.). Targ. Is. LXII, 7. Targ. II Sam. VII, 12; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְתַקַּן. Targ. Jud. XVI, 26 (not קֵן …). Targ. Ps. LXXXIX, 38 (ed. Lag. מִיתַּקַּן Ithpa.); a. e. —2) to prepare, arrange, set in order; to improve, do a thing properly. Targ. Is. XL, 13 (h. text תכן). Targ. O. Ex. XVI, 5. Targ. Prov. VI, 8. Targ. Ps. XI, 2; a. e.—[Targ. O. Deut. XXII, 5, read with ed. Berl. יִתָּקַן.]—Part. pass. as ab. Targ. Ez. XVI, 13 (not קֵן …). Ib. XVIII, 12; a. fr.—Keth. 112ᵃ bot. מְתַקֵּן מתקליה repaired its offences (dangerous places on the road to Palestine); Yalk. Ps. 855. Tam. 27ᵇ תַּקֵּין נפשך put thyself in order (regulate thy bowels). Sabb. 33ᵇ איזיל אֲתַקֵּין מילתא I will go and remedy something (do something to benefit the community). Ib. איכא מילתא דבעי לתַקּוּנֵי is there anything that requires to be remedied? Zeb. 15ᵃ אפשר לתַקּוּנָהּ it can be remedied. Ib. 76ᵇ תַּקּוּנֵי גברא שאני when a person is to be made fit (restored from a disqualification), we make an exception; Men. 105ᵇ. Keth. 85ᵃ, a. fr. לתקוני שדרתיך, v. עֲוַת; a. fr.—Esp. to make fit for use by separating the priestly gifts. Gen. R. s. 60 תַּקְּנַת אילין וכ׳ hast thou tithed those figs? Ib. תַּקַּנְתּוּהוּ have you tithed it (the barley)?; a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. Ib. אפשר … דלא מְתַקְּנַן is it possible that R. Z. should have eaten of them when they were not tithed?; a. fr. —3) to introduce, ordain, innovate, reform. Ber. 33ᵇ אי לאו … ותַקְּנִינְהוּ בתפלה וכ׳ were it not that Moses had said them (the words, ‘O God, great, mighty and terrible’), and the men of the Great Assembly had come and introduced them in the prayers, we could not dare to say them. Ib. תמני סרי תַּקּוּן וכ׳ eighteen benedictions they have ordained, nineteen they have not. Ib. 40ᵇ ברכה דלא תַקִּינוּ רבנן a benediction which the Rabbis have not introduced. B. Bath. 90ᵇ רב פפא … ת׳ כיילא וכ׳ Rab Papa … introduced a measure of three Ḳ’fizas. Ib. אנא … תַּקִּינִי I have introduced a new measure; a. v. fr.