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# טָבַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2881

**dip** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dip [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2881/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָבַל: Niph. vb. dip Qal Ni. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2881/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Niph. Pf. 3 mpl. נִטְבְּלוּ Jos 3:15 be dipped, בְּ of water. vb. dip (NH id.; Aramaic טְבַל dip, bathe; cf. perhaps Arabic طَمَلَ saturavit tinctura vestem, Frey)—Qal Pf. וְטָבַל consec. Lv 4:6 + 5 times; וְטָבַלְתְּ consec. Ru 2:14; וּטְבַלְתֶּם consec. Ex 12:22; Impf. וַיִּטְבֹּל Lv 9:9 + 3 times; 2 ms. sf. תִּטְבְּלֵנִי Jb 9:31; וַיִּטְבְּלוּ Gn 37:31;—dip: trans., dip a thing in, c. acc. rei + בְּ: in blood Gn 37:31 (J), so especially in connexion with sacrifices Lv 4:6; 9:9; 14:6, 51 (also in fresh water); in water, for purification Nu 19:18 (all P); of dipping rod in honey 1 S 14:27, bread in vinegar Ru 2:14, foot in oil Dt 33:24 (poem); בַּשַּׁחַת תִּטְבְּלֵנִי Jb 9:31 in the ditch dost thou dip me; acc. omitted Ex 12:22 (JE; in blood), 2 K 8:15 (in water); but also + מִן = moisten with, with some of Lv 4:17 (blood), 14:16 (oil). intrans., dip (oneself), sq. בְּ, 2 K 5:14 in Jordan (‖ רָחַץ בְּ v 10, 12). Ni.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will dip (5); he dipped (3); \[one who\] dips (1).

## In the verses

[Job 9:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.31/#tree)

אָ֭ז בַּשַּׁ֣חַת תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי׃

*Word for word:* then in (the) pit you will.dip.me and they will.abhor.me clothes my.own

*JPS 1917:* Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

[Genesis 37:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.31/#tree)

וַיִּקְח֖וּ אֶת־כְּתֹ֣נֶת יוֹסֵ֑ף וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ שְׂעִ֣יר עִזִּ֔ים וַיִּטְבְּל֥וּ אֶת־הַכֻּתֹּ֖נֶת בַּדָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) the.long.garment of.Joseph and they.slaughtered a.male.goat of.goats and they.dipped (et) the.long garment in the blood

*JPS 1917:* And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2881.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2881/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).