Hebrew verb · H8609
תָּפַר
taphartaw-far'
to sew
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâphar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8609is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8609
to sew
The King James renders it: (women that) sew (together).
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
taphar is rendered "to sew". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:7וַֽיִּתְפְּרוּ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to sew2
- and they sewed together1
- I have sewed1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- וַֽיִּתְפְּרוּ֙1
- לִֽמְתַפְּר֨וֹת1
- לִתְפּ֔וֹר1
- תָּ֭פַרְתִּי1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine plural1HR/Vprfpa
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
Genesis
one use
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
- וַֽיִּתְפְּרוּ֙vaiyitperuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they sewed together
Job
one use
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
- תָּ֭פַרְתִּיtafartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have sewed
Ecclesiastes
one use
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
- לִתְפּ֔וֹרlitporpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sew
Ezekiel
one use
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?
- לִֽמְתַפְּר֨וֹתlimtaperotpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: to sew
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.