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# טָנַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2936

**soil** — 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

soil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2936/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָנַף: vb. soil, defile [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2936/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. soil, defile (NH Pi. id.; Aramaic Pa. טַנֵּף, ܛܰܢܶܦ; Assyrian ṭanâpu ii, i, DlPr 33; HWB 302; Arabic طَنِفَ is be suspicious, be intrinsically corrupt)— Impf. אֲטַנְּפֵם Ct 5:3 how should I soil them, i.e. my feet (poet. Aramaism).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.3/#tree)

פָּשַׁ֙טְתִּי֙ אֶת־כֻּתָּנְתִּ֔י אֵיכָ֖כָה אֶלְבָּשֶׁ֑נָּה רָחַ֥צְתִּי אֶת־רַגְלַ֖י אֵיכָ֥כָה אֲטַנְּפֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.have.stripped.off (et) tunic my how? will I.put.it.on I.have.washed (et) feet my how? will I.dirty.them

*JPS 1917:* I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2936.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2936/): 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).