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# טְרֵיפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2966

**animal torn** — used 9 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

animal torn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2966/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טְרֵפָה: n.f. animal torn torn flesh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2966/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. animal torn (by wild beasts); torn flesh;—abs. ט׳ Gn 31:39 + 8 times 1. animal torn (by wild beasts), of sheep and goats Gn 31:39 (E); ox, ass or sheep Ex 22:12 (JE; del. WeKlPr on Am 3:12, as gloss from Gn 31:39); indef. v 31 (JE; forbidden as food); commonly c. נְבֵלָה (i.e. what dies naturally) as forbidden food, Lv 7:24 (P), 17:15; 22:8 (both H), Ez 4:14; 44:31; torn flesh, in metaph. of Nineveh’s king as lion Na 2:13 (‖ טֶ֫רֶף).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a torn animal (7); animal (1); torn flesh (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 22:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.12/#tree)

אִם־טָרֹ֥ף יִטָּרֵ֖ף יְבִאֵ֣הוּ עֵ֑ד הַטְּרֵפָ֖ה לֹ֥א יְשַׁלֵּֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* if actually.(tear) it.will.be.torn.in.pieces he will.bring.it evidence the.torn animal not he.will.make.restitution

*JPS 1917:* If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make good that which was torn.

[Leviticus 22:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.8/#tree)

נְבֵלָ֧ה וּטְרֵפָ֛ה לֹ֥א יֹאכַ֖ל לְטָמְאָה־בָ֑הּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.carcass and a.torn.animal not he.will.eat to become.unclean by it I \[am\].Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2966.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2966/): 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).