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# טָחַח

Biblical Hebrew

**be besmeared** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be besmeared [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b8_5d7_5b7_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָחַח: vb. be besmeared [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b8_5d7_5b7_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be besmeared—only Pf. 3 ms. טַח מֵרְאוֹת עֵינֵיהֶם Is 44:18 their eyes have been besmeared so that they do not see, v. Di Du, and on sg. c. subj. pl. Ges§ 145, 7 a; others regard טַח as metaplastic pointing for טָח, from טוח, v. Sta§ 385 d.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it is besmeared (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 44:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.18/#tree)

לֹ֥א יָדְע֖וּ וְלֹ֣א יָבִ֑ינוּ כִּ֣י טַ֤ח מֵֽרְאוֹת֙ עֵֽינֵיהֶ֔ם מֵהַשְׂכִּ֖יל לִבֹּתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* not they.know and not they.understand (dm) it.is.besmeared from seeing eyes their from having.insight hearts their

*JPS 1917:* They know not, neither do they understand; for their eyes are bedaubed, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d8_5b8_5d7_5b7_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b8_5d7_5b7_5d7/): 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).