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# טָפַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2950

**smear** — used 3 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

smear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2950/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָפַל: vb. smear plaster stick, glue ṭapilti [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2950/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. smear or plaster (over), stick, glue (NH id., besmear, plaster; Aramaic טְפַל id., fig. attack; טְפֵילָא mortar; ܛܰܦܶܠ defile; Assyrian ṭapâlu, besmear (?), DlPr 48; HWB)— Pf. 3 pl. טָֽפְלוּ ψ 119:69; Impf. 2 ms. וַתִּטְפֹּל Jb 14:17; Pt. pl. cstr. טֹפְלֵי Jb 13:4;—טָֽפְלוּ עָלַי שֶׁקֶר זֵדִים ψ 119:69 insolent men have plastered falsehood over me, ‘making his real character unrecognisable’ (De); טֹפְלֵי שֶׁקֶר Jb 13:4 ye are falsehood-plasterers (‖ רֹפְאֵי אֱלִל); cf. Assyrian amât tašḳirti ṭapilti Ullusum, a speech of falsehood besmearing Ullusum, DlPr 48; וַתִּטְפֹּל עַל־עֲוֹנִי Jb 14:17 and thou hast glued over mine iniquity, i.e. glued it up, for safe keeping against the day of reckoning (‖ חָתֻם בִּצְרוֹר פִּשְׁעִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are those who\] smear (1); they have smeared (1); you have smeared (1).

## In the verses

[Job 13:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.4/#tree)

וְֽאוּלָ֗ם אַתֶּ֥ם טֹֽפְלֵי־שָׁ֑קֶר רֹפְאֵ֖י אֱלִ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and but you \[are.those.who\].smear of.falsehood \[are\].healers of.worthlessness of.you all

*JPS 1917:* But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

[Job 14:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.17/#tree)

חָתֻ֣ם בִּצְר֣וֹר פִּשְׁעִ֑י וַ֝תִּטְפֹּ֗ל עַל־עֲוֺנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[will.be\].sealed.up in a.bag transgression my and you.have.smeared over iniquity my

*JPS 1917:* My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou heapest up mine iniquity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2950.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2950/): 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).