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# תֹּועָפֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8443

**eminence** — used 4 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

eminence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8443/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹעָפָה: n.f. eminence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8443/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. eminence; of towering horns (? v. Di) כְּתוֹעֲפֹת רְאֵם לוֹ Nu 23:22; 24:8, sim. of strength of Israel; of peaks תּוֹעֲפוֹת הָרִים לוֹ ψ 95:4 (‖ מֶחְקְרֵי־אָ֑רֶץ); of silver Jb 22:25 כֶּסֶף תּוֹעָפוֹת לָ֑ךְ, very dubious, perhaps heaps or bars (ingots).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another 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: horns (2); of heaps (1); peaks (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 23:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.23.22/#tree)

אֵ֖ל מוֹצִיאָ֣ם מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם כְּתוֹעֲפֹ֥ת רְאֵ֖ם לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* God \[is\].bringing them.out from Egypt like.\[the\] horns of.a.wild.ox \[belong\].to him

*JPS 1917:* God who brought them forth out of Egypt is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox.

[Job 22:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.25/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה שַׁדַּ֣י בְּצָרֶ֑יךָ וְכֶ֖סֶף תּוֹעָפ֣וֹת לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.be \[the\].Almighty gold(s) your and silver of.heaps for you

*JPS 1917:* And the Almighty be thy treasure, and precious silver unto thee;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8443.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8443/): 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).