Hebrew verb · H2881
טָבַל
tabaltaw-bal'
to dip
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭâbal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2881is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2881
to dip, to immerse
The King James renders it: dip, plunge.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tabal is rendered "to dip". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Six of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 37:31Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
Genesis 37:31וַיִּטְבְּל֥וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's sixteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he will dip6
- and he dipped4
- and you will dip2
- and dips1
- and they dipped1
- they were dipped1
- you will dip me1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְטָבַ֧ל2
- וְטָבַ֣ל2
- וַיִּטְבֹּ֤ל2
- וְטָבַ֨ל1
- וְטָבַ֤ל1
- וְטֹבֵ֥ל1
- וְטָבַ֥לְתְּ1
- וּטְבַלְתֶּם֮1
- וַיִּטְבֹּ֥ל1
- וַיִּטְבֹּ֣ל1
- וַיִּטְבְּל֥וּ1
- נִטְבְּל֖וּ1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq3ms6Hc/Vqq3ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms4Hc/Vqw3ms
- Hc/Vqq2fs1Hc/Vqq2fs
- Hc/Vqq2mp1Hc/Vqq2mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqi2ms/Sp1bs
Genesis
one use
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
- וַיִּטְבְּל֥וּvaiyitbeluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they dipped
Exodus
one use
Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
- וּטְבַלְתֶּם֮utevaltemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will dip
Leviticus
six uses
The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
- וְטָבַ֧לvetavalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will dip
and he is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.
- וְטָבַ֧לvetavalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will dip
The sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar. And he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
- וַיִּטְבֹּ֤לvaiyitbolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he dipped
And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
- וְטָבַ֨לvetavalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will dip
dip his right forefinger into the oil in his left palm, and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.
- וְטָבַ֤לvetavalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will dip
Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
- וְטָבַ֣לvetavalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will dip
Numbers
one use
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
- וְטָבַ֣לvetavalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will dip
Deuteronomy
one use
And concerning Asher he said: “May Asher be the most blessed of sons; may he be the most favored among his brothers and dip his foot in oil.
- וְטֹבֵ֥לvetovelconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and dips
Joshua
one use
Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
- נִטְבְּל֖וּnitbeluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were dipped
Ruth
one use
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
- וְטָבַ֥לְתְּvetavaltHc/Vqq2fstagged: and you will dip
1 Samuel
one use
Jonathan, however, had not heard that his father had charged the people with the oath. So he reached out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it into the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
- וַיִּטְבֹּ֥לvaiyitbolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he dipped
2 Kings
two uses
So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
- וַיִּטְבֹּ֤לvaiyitbolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he dipped
But the next day Hazael took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over the king’s face. So Ben-hadad died, and Hazael reigned in his place.
- וַיִּטְבֹּ֣לvaiyitbolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he dipped
Job
one use
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִיtitbeleniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will dip me
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.