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טָפַל

ṭâphal · H2950 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to whitewash, to smear

    To cover a surface with whitewash, to make it white and cover ugly rough surfaces; often associated with efforts to make something appear different from what it actually is

    Examples

    Job 13:4 “But you smear me with lies; You are all worthless physicians.

    Psalm 119:69 The arrogant have forged a lie against me; With all my heart I will comply with Your precepts.

  2. to cover > to forgive

    Action by which someone's evil deeds are covered, which means that they are forgiven

    Examples

    Job 14:17 “My wrongdoing is sealed up in a bag, And You cover over my guilt.

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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
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טָפַל describes smearing or plastering over something, as the false accusation of smearing someone with lies, covering the truth with a fabricated charge (Job 13:4, Psalm 119:69).
Innocent002003003015
The smearing this verb describes is directed against an innocent party, a false charge fabricated to implicate someone who has done no wrong.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2950. taphal [טָפַל] verb smear or plaster (over), stick, glue (Late Hebrew id.,…
H2950. taphal
[טָפַל] verb smear or plaster (over), stick, glue (Late Hebrew id., besmear, plaster; Aramaic טְפַל id., figurative attack; טְפֵילָא mortar; defile; Assyrian ‰apâlu, besmear (?), DlPr 48; HWB) —
Qal Perfect3plural טָֽפְלוּ Psa 119:69; Imperfect2masculine singular וַתִּטְמֹּל Job 14:17 Participle plural construct טֹפְלֵי Job 13:4; — זֵדִים שֶׁקֶר עָלַי טָֽפְלוּ Psa 119:69 insolent men have plastered falsehood over me, 'making his real character unrecognisable' (De); שֶׁקֶר טִפְלֵי Job 13:4 ye are falsehood-plasterers (|| אֱלִל רֹפְאֵי); compare Assyrian amât taš‡irti tâpilti Ullusum, a speech of falsehood besmearing Ullusum, DtPr 48; עַלעֲֿוֺנִי וַתִּטְמֹּל Job 14:17 and thou hast glued over mine iniquity, i.e. glued it up, for safe keeping against the day of reckoning (|| מִּשְׁעִי בִּצְרוֺר חָתֻם).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Cover2 occurrencesInnocent1 occurrence

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

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