Word

טָבַל

ṭâbal · H2881 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences

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Meanings

to dip, soak, bathe or immerse

An action by which part or all of an object is put briefly into a liquid and usually soon removed, often to absorb some of the liquid and apply it elsewhere

Examples
Genesis 37:31 So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood;
Exodus 12:22 “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.
Leviticus 4:6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

16 occurrences in 8 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 6
כֹּהֵןpriest 3
Not stated: you (one person) 2
אִישׁman, person, each 1
רֶגֶלfoot, leg 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

11 occurrences in 8 groups

אֶצְבַּעfinger 4
הֶםthem 2
כְּתֹנֶתtunic 1
פַּתbit 1
צִפּוֹרbird, sparrow 1
רֶגֶלfoot, leg 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

15 occurrences in 11 groups

בin/on/with+ דָּםblood 5
Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אָזat that time 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

βάπτω báptō · G911 · to dip in: βάπτω is the standard Greek rendering of Hebrew טָבַל in LXX contexts involving literal dipping or plunging into liquid (e.g., dipping bread in wine, ritual immersion), preserving the core action of submerging or moistening in fluid.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Space002002001017: טָבַל describes dipping or plunging an object into a liquid, a movement into and out of a space, as dipping Joseph's tunic in blood (Genesis 37:31) and dipping hyssop in blood for the Passover (Exodus 12:22).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

טָבַלṭâbal · H2881טָבוּל ṭâbûwl · H2871 · flowing turbans, elaborate turbans · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2881. tabal I. טָבַל verb dip (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic טְבַל dip, bathe; compare…

H2881. tabal
I. טָבַל verb dip (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic טְבַל dip, bathe; compare perhaps Arabic saturavit tinctura vestem, Frey) —
Qal Perfect וְטָבַל consecutive Lev 4:6 Lev 4:5t.; וְטָבַלְתְּ consecutive Rth 2:14; וּטְבַלְתֶּם consecutive Exo 12:22; Imperfect וַיִּטְבֹּל Lev 9:9 Lev 9:3t.; 2 masculine singular suffix תִּטְבְּלֵנִי Job 9:31; וַיִּטְבְּלוּ Gen 37:31 — dip:
1 transitive, dip a thing in, with accusative of thing + בְּ: in blood Gen 37:31 (J), so especially in connection with sacrifices Lev 4:6; Lev 9:9; Lev 14:6, Lev 14:51 (also in fresh water); in water, for purification Num 19:18 (all P); of dipping rod in honey 1Sa 14:27, bread in vinegar Ruth 2:24, foot in oil Deu 33:24 (poem); תִּטְבְּלֵנִי בַּשַּׁחַת Job 9:31 in the ditch dost thou dip me; accusative omitted Exo 12:22 (J E; in blood), 2Ki 8:15 (in water); but also + מִן = moisten with, with some of Lev 4:17 (blood), Lev 14:16 (oil).
2 intransitive, dip (oneself), followed by בְּ, 2Ki 5:14 in Jordan (|| בְּ רָחַץ 2Ki 5:10; 2Ki 5:12).
Niph`al Perfect3masculine plural נִּטְבְּלוּ Jos 3:15 be dipped, בְּ of water.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Space16 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0