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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2945

טַף

taphtaf

child

42 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ṭaph

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2945is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 37
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2945

a family (mostly used collectively in the singular)

The King James renders it: (little) children (ones), families.

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

taph is rendered "child". It stands 42 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:29They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-seven different ways.

The first use

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

Genesis 34:29טַפָּם֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and the little one6
  • little one their6
  • little one your5
  • the little one5
  • and little one3
  • and little one your3
  • for little one your3
  • little one our3
  • little one2
  • among the little one1
  • and for little one our1
  • and little one our1

and 3 more, 42 uses in all

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.

The words it stands beside

All 42, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

37 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

  • טַפָּם֙3
  • וְהַטַּ֔ף2
  • וְהַטָּֽף׃2
  • טַפְּכֶ֑ם2
  • בַּטָּ֑ף1
  • הַטַּ֣ף1
  • הַטַּ֧ף1
  • הַטַּ֖ף1
  • הַטַּף֮1
  • הַטָּֽף׃1
  • וְהַטַּ֨ף1
  • וְהַטָּ֑ף1

and 25 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6HC/Td/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HNcmsc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural5HNcmsc/Sp2mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural3HC/Ncmsc/Sp2mp
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural3HNcmsc/Sp1bp
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural3HR/Ncmsc/Sp2mp
  • noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp1bp

Genesis

eight uses
  • They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

    Genesis 34:29

    • טַפָּם֙tapamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: little one their
  • And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

    Genesis 43:8

    • טַפֵּֽנוּ׃tapenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: little one our
  • You are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.

    Genesis 45:19

    • לְטַפְּכֶם֙letapekhempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: for little one your
  • Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.

    Genesis 46:5

    • טַפָּם֙tapamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: little one their
  • Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

    Genesis 47:12

    • הַטָּֽף׃hatafthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the little one
  • At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

    Genesis 47:24

    • לְטַפְּכֶֽם׃letapekhempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: for little one your
  • along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

    Genesis 50:8

    • טַפָּם֙tapamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: little one their
  • Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

    Genesis 50:21

    • טַפְּכֶ֑םtapekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: little one your

Exodus

three uses
  • Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.

    Exodus 10:10

    • טַפְּכֶ֑םtapekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: little one your
  • Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

    Exodus 10:24

    • טַפְּכֶ֖םtapekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: little one your
  • The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

    Exodus 12:37

    • מִטָּֽף׃mitafpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from little one

Numbers

ten uses
  • Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

    Numbers 14:3

    • וְטַפֵּ֖נוּvetapenuconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and little one our
  • But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

    Numbers 14:31

    • וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔םvetapekhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and little one your
  • So they moved away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram had come out and stood at the entrances to their tents with their wives and children and infants.

    Numbers 16:27

    • וְטַפָּֽם׃vetapamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and little one their
  • The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

    Numbers 31:9

    • טַפָּ֑םtapamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: little one their
  • So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

    Numbers 31:17

    • בַּטָּ֑ףbatafpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: among the little one
  • but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

    Numbers 31:18

    • הַטַּ֣ףhatafthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the little one
  • Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.

    Numbers 32:16

    • לְטַפֵּֽנוּ׃letapenupreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: for little one our
  • But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

    Numbers 32:17

    • טַפֵּ֙נוּ֙tapenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: little one our
  • Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

    Numbers 32:24

    • לְטַפְּכֶ֔םletapekhempreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: for little one your
  • Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

    Numbers 32:26

    • טַפֵּ֣נוּtapenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: little one our

Deuteronomy

seven uses
  • And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

    Deuteronomy 1:39

    • וְטַפְּכֶם֩vetapekhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and little one your
  • At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

    Deuteronomy 2:34

    • וְהַטָּ֑ףvehatafconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the little one
  • We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

    Deuteronomy 3:6

    • וְהַטָּֽף׃vehatafconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the little one
  • But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,

    Deuteronomy 3:19

    • וְטַפְּכֶם֮vetapekhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and little one your
  • But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

    Deuteronomy 20:14

    • וְהַטַּ֨ףvehatafconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the little one
  • your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

    Deuteronomy 29:11

    • טַפְּכֶ֣םtapekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: little one your
  • Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.

    Deuteronomy 31:12

    • וְהַטַּ֔ףvehatafconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the little one

Joshua

two uses
  • Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them,

    Joshua 1:14

    • טַפְּכֶם֮tapekhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: little one your
  • There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among them.

    Joshua 8:35

    • וְהַטַּ֔ףvehatafconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the little one

Judges

two uses
  • Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.

    Judges 18:21

    • הַטַּ֧ףhatafthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the little one
  • So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.

    Judges 21:10

    • וְהַטָּֽף׃vehatafconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the little one

2 Samuel

one use
  • “March on then,” said David to Ittai. So Ittai the Gittite marched past with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

    2 Samuel 15:22

    • הַטַּ֖ףhatafthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the little one

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • Meanwhile all the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, were standing before the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 20:13

    • טַפָּ֖םtapamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: little one their
  • The genealogy included all the little ones, wives, sons, and daughters in the whole assembly. For they had faithfully consecrated themselves as holy.

    2 Chronicles 31:18

    • טַפָּ֧םtapamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: little one their

Ezra

one use
  • And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

    Ezra 8:21

    • וּלְטַפֵּ֖נוּuletapenuconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and for little one our

Esther

two uses
  • And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

    Esther 3:13

    • טַ֤ףtafnoun · masculine singulartagged: little one
  • By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

    Esther 8:11

    • טַ֣ףtafnoun · masculine singulartagged: little one

Jeremiah

three uses
  • When all the commanders and men of the armies in the field heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children who were the poorest of the land and had not been exiled to Babylon,

    Jeremiah 40:7

    • וָטָ֔ףvatafconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and little one
  • Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.

    Jeremiah 41:16

    • וְטַף֙vetafconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and little one
  • the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.

    Jeremiah 43:6

    • הַטַּף֮hatafthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the little one

Ezekiel

one use
  • Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

    Ezekiel 9:6

    • וְטַ֨ףvetafconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and little one

The letters

Gematria 89· 809 mispar gadol

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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