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# תָּפֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8602

**whitewash** — used 5 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

whitewash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8602/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּפֵל²: whitewash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8602/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] whitewash;—applied to wall, in Ezekiel’s vision Ez 13:10, 11, 14, 15; fig. of false prophet 22:28.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: whitewash (4); of whitewash (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 13:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.11/#tree)

אֱמֹ֛ר אֶל־טָחֵ֥י תָפֵ֖ל וְיִפֹּ֑ל הָיָ֣ה ׀ גֶּ֣שֶׁם שׁוֹטֵ֗ף וְאַתֵּ֜נָה אַבְנֵ֤י אֶלְגָּבִישׁ֙ תִּפֹּ֔לְנָה וְר֥וּחַ סְעָר֖וֹת תְּבַקֵּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* say to \[those.who.are\].plastering of.whitewash and it.will.fall it.will.come rain overflowing and you O.stones of.hail you.will.fall and a.wind of.tempests it.will.break.through.\[the.wall\]

*JPS 1917:* say unto them that daub it with whited plaster, that it shall fall; there shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall break forth,

[Ezekiel 22:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.22.28/#tree)

וּנְבִיאֶ֗יהָ טָח֤וּ לָהֶם֙ תָּפֵ֔ל חֹזִ֣ים שָׁ֔וְא וְקֹסְמִ֥ים לָהֶ֖ם כָּזָ֑ב אֹמְרִ֗ים כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וַֽיהוָ֖ה לֹ֥א דִבֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and prophets its they.have.plastered for them whitewash \[they.are\].seeing falsehood and \[they.are\].divining for them falsehood \[they.are\].saying thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh and Yahweh not he.had.spoken

*JPS 1917:* And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing falsehood, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8602.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8602/): 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).