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# תִּפְלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8604

**unsavouriness** — 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

unsavouriness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8604/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּפְלָה: n.f. unsavouriness, unseemliness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8604/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (moral) unsavouriness, unseemliness;—abs. ת׳; unseemliness, of men Je 23:13; Jb 24:12; לֹא נָתַן ת׳ לֵא׳ 1:22 he did not ascribe unseemliness to God; so read also 4:18 (for MT תָּהֳלָה) Hup Me Bu.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: offensiveness (3).

## In the verses

[Job 1:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.22/#tree)

בְּכָל־זֹ֖את לֹא־חָטָ֣א אִיּ֑וֹב וְלֹא־נָתַ֥ן תִּפְלָ֖ה לֵאלֹהִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* in all this not he.sinned Job and not he.ascribed offensiveness to God

*JPS 1917:* For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.

[Job 24:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.12/#tree)

מֵ֘עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים ׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְנֶֽפֶשׁ־חֲלָלִ֥ים תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַ וֶ֝אֱל֗וֹהַּ לֹא־יָשִׂ֥ים תִּפְלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] city men they.groan and.\[the\] throat of.\[those\].fatally.wounded it.cries.for.help and God not he.puts offensiveness

*JPS 1917:* From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8604.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8604/): 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).