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# תָּפֵל

Biblical Hebrew

**tasteless** — used 2 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

tasteless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5e4_5b5_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּפֵל: adj. tasteless, unseasoned [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5e4_5b5_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. tasteless, unseasoned;—abs. ת׳, as subst. Jb 6:6; fig. of unsatisfying prophecies La 2:14 (+ שָׁוְא).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sham (1); tasteless \[food\] (1).

## In the verses

[Job 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.6/#tree)

הֲיֵאָכֵ֣ל תָּ֭פֵל מִבְּלִי־מֶ֑לַח אִם־יֶשׁ־טַ֝֗עַם בְּרִ֣יר חַלָּמֽוּת׃

*Word for word:* is it.eaten? tasteless.\[food\] from not salt or? \[is\].there taste in.\[the\] slime of.purslane

*JPS 1917:* Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?

[Lamentations 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.14/#tree)

נְבִיאַ֗יִךְ חָ֤זוּ לָךְ֙ שָׁ֣וְא וְתָפֵ֔ל וְלֹֽא־גִלּ֥וּ עַל־עֲוֺנֵ֖ךְ לְהָשִׁ֣יב שְׁבוּתֵ֑ךְ וַיֶּ֣חֱזוּ לָ֔ךְ מַשְׂא֥וֹת שָׁ֖וְא וּמַדּוּחִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* prophets your they.have.seen for you worthlessness and sham and not they.have.made.known on iniquity your to turn.back captivity your and they.have.seen for you oracles of.worthlessness and enticement(s)

*JPS 1917:* Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5e4_5b5_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5e4_5b5_5dc/): 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).