Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H2953
טְפַר
tephartef-ar'
nail/claw
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭᵉphar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2953is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2953
a finger-nail; also a hoof or claw
The King James renders it: nail.
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
tephar is rendered "nail/claw". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:33At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
Daniel 4:33וְטִפְר֥וֹהִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and claws its1
- and nails his1
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 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- וְטִפְר֥וֹהִי1
- וְטִפְרַ֣יהּ1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1AC/Ncbsc/Sp3fs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1AC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
Daniel
two uses
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- וְטִפְר֥וֹהִיvetifrohiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and nails his
Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.
- וְטִפְרַ֣יהּvetifraihconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and claws its
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.