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# טָפַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2954

**be gross** — 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 gross [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2954/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָפַשׁ: vb. be gross [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2954/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be gross (NH Hithp. grow stupid, and deriv., Aramaic טְפֵשׁ, for Heb. שׁמן Is 6:11, Ithp. be stupid; cf. Assyrian ṭapâšu, be abundant, large, GuyJAS 1883, Août-Sept. 189)—metaph. טָפַשׁ כַּחֵלָב לִבָּ֑ם ψ 119:70 their heart is gross, like fat.

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: it is insensitive (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:70](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.70/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.70/#tree)

טָפַ֣שׁ כַּחֵ֣לֶב לִבָּ֑ם אֲ֝נִ֗י תּוֹרָתְךָ֥ שִֽׁעֲשָֽׁעְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* it.is.insensitive like (the) fat heart their I law your I.delight

*JPS 1917:* Their heart is gross like fat; but I delight in Thy law.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2954.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2954/): 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).