Hebrew verb · H8608
תָּפַף
taphaphtaw-faf'
to beat
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâphaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8608is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8608
to drum, i.e. play (as) on the tambourine
The King James renders it: taber, play with timbrels.
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
taphaph is rendered "to beat". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 68:25The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
Psalms 68:25תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃
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
- beating1
- playing tambourines1
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
- מְתֹפְפֹ֖ת1
- תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine plural1HVprfpa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine plural1HVqrfpa
Psalms
one use
The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
- תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃tofefotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: playing tambourines
Nahum
one use
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
- מְתֹפְפֹ֖תmetofefotverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: beating
The letters
Gematria 560· 1,280 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 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.