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תָּפַף

tâphaph · H8608 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Literally: to beat (one's) heart; hence: action by which humans beat their breast to give expression to their grief (to beat (one's) breast)

    Examples

    Nahum 2:7 It is set: She is stripped, she is led away, And her slave women are sobbing like the sound of doves, Beating their breasts.

  2. to beat the drum

    Literally: to beat; hence: action by which humans play a percussion instrument

    Examples

    Psalm 68:25 The singers went on, the musicians after them, In the midst of the young women beating tambourines.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

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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This verb denotes striking a percussion instrument, as in Nahum 2:8's picture of Nineveh's people fleeing while others cry out to stop them, beating their breasts in despair.
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The verb also denotes the sound produced by such playing, as in Psalm 68:25's picture of the young women beating tambourines among the singers and musicians.
Word family 3 words

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

תָּפַףtâphaph · H8608תֹּף tôph · H8596 · drum, hand drum, spangle · 17×תֹּפֶת tôpheth · H8611 · spitting · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8608. taphaph [תָּפַף] verb denominative sound the timbrel, beat; — Qal Participle…
H8608. taphaph
[תָּפַף] verb denominative sound the timbrel, beat; —
Qal Participle תֹּפֵפוֺת עֲלָמוֺת Psa 68:26; read Imperfect וַיָּ֫תָף 1Sa 21:14 ᵐ5 (see תוה).
Po`el Participle יוֺנִים כְּקוֺל עַללִֿבֵהֶן מְתֹפְפֹת Nah 2:8; > Sta (after ᵐ5) מְצַפְצְפוֺת twittering.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Impact1 occurrenceSounds1 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

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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