תָּפֵל
tâphêl · H8602 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Thing
- Plaster, stucco, whitewashBuilders19 verses
Meanings
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tasteless food, insipid food
Food that does not have much taste due to the lack of salt
ExamplesJob 6:6 “Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the juice of an alkanet plant?
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whitewash
Lime mixed with water, painted on walls to make them white and cover ugly rough surfaces, which only beautifies a structure and so is often associated with efforts to make something appear different from what it is
ExamplesEzekiel 13:10 “It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;
Ezekiel 13:11 so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, hailstones, will fall, and a violent wind will break out.
Ezekiel 13:14 “So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and hurl it down to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed; and when it falls, you will perish in its midst. And you will know that I am the LORD.
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whitewash > deception, fraud
State in which an event cannot be relied on to be true and trustworthy; like an ugly and/or badly constructed wall that has been covered with whitewash
ExamplesLamentations 2:14 Your prophets have seen for you Worthless and deceptive visions; And they have not exposed your wrongdoing So as to restore you from captivity, But they have seen for you worthless and misleading pronouncements.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָזָהto see, to look at 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוּחַto cover 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 3 entries
- Food001003001003
- This adjective denotes food lacking flavor, as in Job 6:6's question whether something tasteless can be eaten without salt.
- Paint001002005010
- The adjective also denotes a flimsy whitewash applied to a wall, as in Ezekiel 13:10's rebuke of those who plaster a wall over with whitewash.
- False002001003007
- The adjective also denotes worthless, deceptive speech, as in Lamentations 2:14's charge that Judah's prophets saw worthless and deceptive visions for her.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8602. taphel I. תָּפֵל adjective tasteless, unseasoned; — absolute ׳ת, as substantive…
I. תָּפֵל adjective tasteless, unseasoned; — absolute ׳ת, as substantive Job 6:6; figurative of unsatisfying prophecies Lam 2:14 ( + שָׁוְא).
II. תָּפֵל noun [masculine] whitewash; — applied to wall, in Ezekiel's vision Eze 13:10-11, Eze 13:14, Eze 13:15; figurative of false prophet Eze 22:28.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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