Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H8631
תְּקֵף
teqephtek-afe'
to grow strong
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tᵉqêph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8631is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8631
to become (causatively, make) mighty or (figuratively) obstinate
The King James renders it: make firm, harden, be(-come) strong.
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
teqeph is rendered "to grow strong". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:11The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
Daniel 4:11וּתְקִ֑ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five 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 it grew strong2
- and to make stringent1
- and you have grown strong1
- it grew strong1
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 5, 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
- וּתְקִ֑ף2
- וּלְתַקָּפָ֖ה1
- וּתְקֵ֑פְתְּ1
- תִּֽקְפַ֣ת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2AC/Vqp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1AC/R/Vpcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1AC/Vqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AVqp3fs
Daniel
five uses
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
- וּתְקִ֑ףutekifconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and it grew strong
The tree you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached the sky and was visible to all the earth,
- וּתְקִ֑ףutekifconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and it grew strong
you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.
- וּתְקֵ֑פְתְּutekefetconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and you have grown strong
But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
- תִּֽקְפַ֣תtikfatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it grew strong
All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.
- וּלְתַקָּפָ֖הuletakafahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to make stringent
The letters
Gematria 580· 1,300 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.