תִּפְלָה
tiphlâh · H8604 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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irrationality, senselessness
State when a certain activity does not appear to be in accordance with good sense
ExamplesJob 24:12 “From the city people groan, And the souls of the wounded cry for help; Yet God does not pay attention to the offensiveness.
Jeremiah 23:13 “Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- רָאָהto see 1
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 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 7 words
- כְּסִילוּת kᵉçîylûwth · H3687 · foolishness, folly
- Both words denote foolishness or folly as abstract qualities.
- נְבָלָה nᵉbâlâh · H5039 · foolishness, folly, foolish actions
- Both words refer to folly and foolishness; they are distinct Hebrew words for overlapping concepts of folly.
- הוֹלֵלוּת hôwlêlûwth · H1948 · madness
- "Madness" and "folly" are semantically overlapping terms denoting irrational or senseless behavior/mindset, genuine same-language near-synonyms. This is real domain-level evidence that would support inclusion, but cannot be exhaustively verified here.
- כִּסְלָה kiçlâh · H3690 · confidence, trust, foolishness
- Both lexemes are nouns denoting folly/foolishness, a genuine semantic overlap consistent with near-synonymy. כִּסְלָה (kiçlâh, H3690) also belongs to "Confident," which may indicate a slightly different nuance (perhaps overconfidence), but the "folly" sense is shared.
- הוֹלֵלָה hôwlêlâh · H1947 · madness
- Madness and folly both denote a lack of wisdom or sound judgment and can substitute for each other in many contexts.
- שִׁגָּעוֹן shiggâʻôwn · H7697 · madness
- שִׁגָּעוֹן (shiggâʻôwn, H7697) means "madness" and תִּפְלָה (tiphlâh, H8604) means "folly"; both overlap in the area of irrational or unwise behavior.
- סִכְלוּת çiklûwth · H5531 · folly, foolishness
- Both words are abstract nouns denoting the quality or state of folly and foolishness, and could substitute for each other in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Foolish002001002010
- This noun denotes something offensive or unseemly, as in Jeremiah 23:13's charge that the prophets of Samaria committed an offensive thing by prophesying by Baal.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8604. tiphlah תִּפְלָה noun feminine (moral) unsavouriness, unseemliness; — absolute ׳ת;…
תִּפְלָה noun feminine (moral) unsavouriness, unseemliness; — absolute ׳ת; unseemliness, of men Jer 23:13; Job 24:12; ת נָתַן ׳לאֹ ׳לֵא Job 1:21 did not ascribe unseemliness to God; so read also Job 4:18 (for תָּהֳלָה ᵑ0) Hup Me Bu.
II. תפל (√ of following; akin to טָפַל).
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
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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