Hebrew verb · H8610
תָּפַשׂ
taphastaw-fas'
to capture
65 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâphas
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8610is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 15 of 39Old Testament books
- 57spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8610
to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably
The King James renders it: catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, [idiom] surely, surprise, take.
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
taphas is rendered "to capture". It stands 65 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.
- Eighteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:21And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
- The Greek text spells it fifty-seven different ways.
The first use
And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
Genesis 4:21תֹּפֵ֥שׂ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eighteen of the word's sixty-five uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he seized4
- and they seized3
- seize them3
- wield3
- and he seized them2
- and he will be caught2
- and they seized them2
- it was caught2
- you will be captured2
- and handled1
- and handler of1
- and he arrested1
and 39 more, 65 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 65, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
57 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
- תֹּפְשֵׂ֣י3
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙2
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשֵֽׂם׃2
- וְנִתְפַּ֖שׂ2
- תָּפַ֛שׂ2
- תִּפְשׂ֣וּם2
- תִּתָּפֵ֔שׂ2
- בְּתָפְשָׂ֨ם1
- וָאֶתְפֹּשׂ֙1
- וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ1
- וַיִּתְפֹּ֣שׂ1
- וַיִּתְפֹּ֞שׂ1
and 45 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)5HVqrmpc
- Hc/Vqw3ms4Hc/Vqw3ms
- Hc/Vqw3mp3Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVNp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqv2mp/Sp3mp
- Hc/VNq3ms2Hc/VNq3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Vqrmsc
- Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp2Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HR/Vqcc/Sp3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVNi2ms
Genesis
two uses
And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
- תֹּפֵ֥שׂtofesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: player of
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
- וַתִּתְפְּשֵׂ֧הוּvatitpesehuHc/Vqw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she seized him
Numbers
two uses
by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
- נִתְפָּֽשָׂה׃nitpasahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she was caught
Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.
- תֹּפְשֵׂ֣יtofeseiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: skilled of
Deuteronomy
four uses
So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
- וָאֶתְפֹּשׂ֙vaetposHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I seized
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- לְתָפְשָׂ֗הּletafesahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to capture it
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
- וְתָ֥פְשׂוּvetafesuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will seize
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
- וּתְפָשָׂ֖הּutefasahHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will seize her
Joshua
two uses
And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
- כְּתָפְשְׂכֶ֣םketafesekhempreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: when have captured you
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
- תָּ֣פְשׂוּtafesuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they captured
1 Samuel
two uses
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
- וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂvaiyitposHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he seized
Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
- לְתָפְשָֽׂם׃letafesampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to catch them
1 Kings
six uses
And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,
- וַיִּתְפֹּ֣שׂvaiyitposHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he seized
Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
- תִּפְשֻׂ֑הוּtifsuhuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: seize him
Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
- תִּפְשׂ֣וּ׀tifsuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: seize
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂ֑וּםvaiyitpesumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they seized them
“If they have marched out in peace,” he said, “take them alive. Even if they have marched out for war, take them alive.”
- תִּפְשׂ֣וּםtifsumverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: seize them
- תִּפְשֽׂוּם׃tifsumverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: seize them
2 Kings
eight uses
So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
- וְנִתְפְּשֵׂ֣םvenitpesemHC/Vqu1cp/Sp3mptagged: and we will seize them
Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.
- תִּפְשׂ֣וּםtifsumverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: seize them
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂ֖וּםvaiyitpesumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they seized them
Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.
- וְתָפַ֥שׂvetafasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he seized
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- תָּפַ֛שׂtafasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he seized
So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשֶׂ֔הָvaiyitpesehaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he seized it
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשֵֽׂם׃vaiyitpesemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he seized them
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙vaiyitpesuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they seized
2 Chronicles
one use
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- תָּפַ֛שׂtafasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he caught
Psalms
two uses
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- יִתָּפְשׂ֓וּ׀yitafesuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are caught
saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
- וְ֝תִפְשׂ֗וּהוּvetifsuhuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and seize him
Proverbs
two uses
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
- וְ֝תָפַ֗שְׂתִּיvetafastiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will seize
and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
- תְּתַפֵּ֑שׂtetapesverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will grasp
Isaiah
two uses
A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”
- יִתְפֹּ֨שׂyitposverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will seize
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשֵֽׂם׃vaiyitpesemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he seized them
Jeremiah
eighteen uses
The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
- וְתֹפְשֵׂ֤יvetofeseiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and handled
and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
- וַיִּתְפְּשׂ֨וּvaiyitpesuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they seized
And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.
- תָּפֹ֣שׂtafosverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to capture
- תִּתָּפֵ֔שׂtitafesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will be captured
But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
- וַיִּתְפֹּ֞שׂvaiyitposHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he arrested
“That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials.
- וַיִּתְפֹּ֤שׂvaiyitposHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he seized
All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
- תִּתָּפֵ֔שׂtitafesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will be captured
As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
- תְּפַשְׂתֶּֽם׃tefastemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have taken hold of
Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
- תֹּפְשֵׂ֣יtofeseiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wield
- תֹּפְשֵׂ֖יtofeseiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wield
Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- נִתְפָּ֑שָׂהnitpasahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be seized
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- תֹּפְשִׂ֖יtofesiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O occupant of
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
- וְתֹפֵ֥שׂvetofesconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and wields
I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
- נִתְפַּ֔שְׂתְּnitpastverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you were caught
At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.
- נִתְפְּשָׂ֣הnitpesahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been captured
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
- נִתְפָּ֔שׂוּnitpasuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been seized
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- וַתִּתָּפֵ֖שׂvatitafesHc/VNw3fstagged: and it has been seized
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
- וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙vaiyitpesuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they seized
Ezekiel
twelve uses
But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.
- וְנִתְפַּ֖שׂvenitpasHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will be caught
so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
- תְּפֹ֥שׂtefosverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to capture
I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.
- וְנִתְפַּ֖שׂvenitpasHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will be caught
When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
- נִתְפָּ֑שׂnitpasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was caught
Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.
- נִתְפָּֽשׂ׃nitpasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was caught
The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.
- לִתְפֹּ֣שׂlitpospreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to grasp
It will seem like a false omen to the eyes of those who have sworn allegiance to him, but it will draw attention to their guilt and take them captive.
- לְהִתָּפֵֽשׂ׃ פlehitafespreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be seized
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.
- תִּתָּפֵֽשׂוּ׃ פtitafesuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be seized
All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.
- תֹּפְשֵׂ֣יtofeseiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wield
When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.
- בְּתָפְשָׂ֨םbetafesampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: when seized they
“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.
- לִתְפֹּ֥שׂlitpospreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wield
I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.
- תֹּפְשֵׂ֥יtofeseiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wielders of
Amos
one use
The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.
- וְתֹפֵ֤שׂvetofesconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and handler of
Habakkuk
one use
Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
- תָּפוּשׂ֙tafusverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: sheathed
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How the numbers are counted
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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.
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.