Hebrew verb · H2921
טָלָא
talataw-law'
to spot
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭâlâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2921is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2921
properly, to cover with pieces; i.e. (by implication) to spot or variegate (as tapestry)
The King James renders it: clouted, with divers colours, spotted.
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
tala is rendered "to spot". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:32Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
Genesis 30:32וְטָל֗וּא
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and spotted4
- and the spotted2
- and patched1
- multicolored1
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 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- וְהַטְּלֻאִ֗ים1
- וְהַטְּלֻאֹ֔ת1
- וּטְלֻאִֽים׃1
- וְטָל֗וּא1
- וְטָל֥וּא1
- וְטָל֜וּא1
- וּמְטֻלָּאוֹת֙1
- טְלֻא֔וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular3HC/Vqsmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine plural1HC/Td/Vqsfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HC/Td/Vqsmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine plural1HC/VPsfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HC/Vqsmpa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine plural1HVqsfpa
Genesis
six uses
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
- וְטָל֗וּאvetalu'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and spotted
- וְטָל֥וּאvetalu'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and spotted
So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
- וְטָל֜וּאvetalu'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and spotted
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
- וְהַטְּלֻאִ֗יםvehateluimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: and the spotted
- וְהַטְּלֻאֹ֔תvehateluotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: and the spotted
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
- וּטְלֻאִֽים׃uteluimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: and spotted
Joshua
one use
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
- וּמְטֻלָּאוֹת֙umetulaotconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: and patched
Ezekiel
one use
You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
- טְלֻא֔וֹתteluotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: multicolored
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.