Word

טַף

ṭaph · H2945 · Hebrew · 42 occurrences

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Meanings

young child, little one

Children dependent on their mothers for care; in this sense usually occurring in a variant of the expression טַף וְנָשִׁים "children and women", often with possessives, indicating their belonging to families headed by an adult male; associated with vulnerability and lack of strength

Examples
Genesis 34:29 and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even everything that was in the houses.
Genesis 45:19 “Now you are ordered, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come.
Genesis 46:5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Dependents of a household, especially women and pre-adolescent children; it could include older people that are physically impaired (dependants, women and children (and the elderly), family)

Examples
Genesis 43:8 So Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will arise and go, so that we may live and not die, we as well as you and our little ones.
Genesis 47:12 Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their little ones.
Genesis 47:24 “At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food, and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”

How it’s used In 7 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

24 occurrences in 3 groups

כֶםyour 11
הֶםtheir 7
נוּour 6

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 3 groups

אָמַרto say 2
שׁוּבto return, to turn back 1
וֹhim 1

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 groups

עִירcity, town 1
עַםpeople 1
שָׁלָלspoil, plunder, booty 1

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 2
הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
מוּתto die 1
עָבַרto pass 1

What is done to itIt is the object

10 occurrences in 9 groups

Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 4 groups

לto/for 7
בin/on/with 4
נֶגֶדbefore, opposite 2
מִןfrom 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פֶּהmouth 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Relatives001001003012: טַף names the little children of a household, the dependent young ones counted among a family's members, as the little ones evacuated along with wives when Jacob's family journeyed to Egypt (Genesis 45:19).
Classes001001003001: The word also functions as a collective class term, grouping the children as a distinct category alongside women, livestock, and other household members in a census or muster.

Word family 2 words

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

טָפַף ṭâphaph · H2952 · to mince, to walk seductively · 1×טַףṭaph · H2945

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2945. taph טַף42 noun masculine collective children (as going with quick, tripping…

H2945. taph
טַף42 noun masculine collective children (as going with quick, tripping steps; Ethiopic Di1251) — טַף Jer 41:16 Jer 41:11t.; טָ֑ף Jer 40:7 Jer 40:5t.; suffix טַמֵּנוּ Gen 43:8 Gen 43:5t.; טַמְּכֶם Gen 45:19 Gen 45:10t.; טַמָּם Gen 34:29 Gen 34:6t.; never construct and never plural (in Gen 47:24 omitted by ᵐ5, compare Di); — children, little ones, Gen 34:29 (E) + 18 t. J E (Genesis Exodus Numbers), also Deu 1:39 Deu 1:8t. D (including Jos 1:14; Jos 8:35); P only Num 31:9, Num 31:17, Num 31:18, where note בַּטָּ֑ף זָכָר Num 31:17 = young boys, and בַּנָּשִׁים הַטַף Num 31:18 = young girls; also Jdg 18:21; Jdg 21:10; 2Sa 15:22; Jer 40:7; Jer 41:16; Jer 43:6; Eze 9:6; 2Ch 20:13; 2Ch 31:18; Ezr 8:21; Est 3:13; Est 8:11; the words וְהַטָ֑ף וְנָשִׁים מְתִים Deu 2:34; Deu 3:6 including all inhabitants; so וְהַטָּף וְהַנָּשִׁים אֲנָשִׁים Deu 31:12; Jer 40:7; Jer 43:6; טַף distinguished from וּבְּתוּלָה בָּחוּר Eze 9:6; also from בְּנֵיהֶם2Ch 20:13, and from וּבְנוֺתֵיהֶם בְנֵיהֶם2Ch 31:18. **Note that the word includes (or implies) women as well as children, in following: Gen 47:12; Exo 12:37 (E), Exo 10:10; Exo 10:24 (J), Num 32:16; Num 32:17 (J E; compare Di on Num 32:26).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Relatives42 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

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