Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8596
תֹּף
tophtofe
tambourine
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tôph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8596is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8596
a tambourine
The King James renders it: tabret, timbrel.
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
toph is rendered "tambourine". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
Genesis 31:27בְּתֹ֥ף
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
- with tambourines4
- with tambourine3
- tambourines your2
- a tambourine1
- according to tambourine1
- and on tambourines1
- and tambourine1
- and with tambourines1
- tambourine1
- tambourines1
- the tambourine1
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- בְּתֹ֥ף2
- בְּתֻפִּ֖ים2
- וּבְתֻפִּ֔ים2
- בְתֹ֣ף1
- בְתֻפִּ֖ים1
- בְּתֻפִּ֥ים1
- הַתֹּ֖ף1
- וְתֹף֙1
- כְּתֹ֣ף1
- תֹ֑ף1
- תֹּ֧ף1
- תֻפַּ֔יִךְ1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural4HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural2HC/R/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2fs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
- בְּתֹ֥ףbetofpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with tambourine
Exodus
two uses
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- הַתֹּ֖ףhatofthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the tambourine
- בְּתֻפִּ֖יםbetupimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with tambourines
Judges
one use
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
- בְתֻפִּ֖יםvetupimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with tambourines
1 Samuel
two uses
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
- וְתֹף֙vetofconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tambourine
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
- בְּתֻפִּ֥יםbetupimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with tambourines
2 Samuel
one use
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
- וּבְתֻפִּ֔יםuvetupimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and on tambourines
1 Chronicles
one use
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
- וּבְתֻפִּ֔יםuvetupimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and with tambourines
Job
one use
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
- כְּתֹ֣ףketofpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: according to tambourine
Psalms
three uses
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
- תֹ֑ףtofnoun · masculine singulartagged: a tambourine
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
- בְּתֹ֥ףbetofpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with tambourine
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
- בְתֹ֣ףvetofpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with tambourine
Isaiah
three uses
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
- תֹּ֧ףtofnoun · masculine singulartagged: tambourine
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
- תֻּפִּ֔יםtupimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: tambourines
And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.
- בְּתֻפִּ֖יםbetupimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with tambourines
Jeremiah
one use
Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
- תֻפַּ֔יִךְtupayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: tambourines your
Ezekiel
one use
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
- תֻּפֶּ֤יךָtupeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: tambourines your
The letters
Gematria 480· 1,200 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.