טָפַשׁ
ṭâphash · H2954 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be fat
Exact meaning unsure; possibly: to be covered with a layer of fat; associated with slowness or lack of activity and, thus, dullness, insensitivity, and foolishness
ExamplesPsalm 119:70 Their heart is insensitive, like fat, But I delight in Your Law.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as+ חֶלֶבfat 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- עָבָה ʻâbâh · H5666 · to be fat, to be thick
- Both words describe overlapping physical qualities, being fat or thick.
- שָׁמַן shâman · H8080 · to be well-fed
- Both words denote the state or process of becoming fat, describing the same physiological condition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fat002001001028
- טָפַשׁ describes becoming fat or unresponsive, used figuratively of a heart grown fat and insensitive to God's word (Psalm 119:70).
Word family 1 word
This word has no family of its own: these words share its root.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2954. taphash טָפַשׁ verb be gross (Late Hebrew Hithpa`el grow stupid, and derivatives;…
טָפַשׁ verb be gross (Late Hebrew Hithpa`el grow stupid, and derivatives; Aramaic טְפֵשׁ, for Hebrew שׁמן Isa 6:11, Ithpe`el be stupid; compare Assyrian ‰apâšu, be abundant, large, GuyJAS 1883, Août-Sept. 189) — metaphor לִבָּ֑ם כַּחֵלֶב טָפַשׁ Psa 119:70 their heart is gross, like fat.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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