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# תִּפְסַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8607

**Tipsah** — 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

Tipsah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8607/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּפְסַח: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8607/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. on Euphrates (prob. ford (though LagBN 131 doubts); LewyFremdw. 146 cp. Λάμψακος (on Bosphorus), expl. as לַפֶּסַח);—1 K 5:4, NE. limit of Sol.’s dominion; = Gk. ΘάψακοςXenophAnab. i. 4 etc.; identif. with Kal’at Dibse, at the great easterly bend of the river, c. Lat. 35° 55ˊ N, Long. 38° 20ˊ E, JPPetersNation, May 23, 1889; Nippur i. 96 ff.

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 15:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.16/#tree)

אָ֣ז יַכֶּֽה־מְ֠נַחֵם אֶת־תִּפְסַ֨ח וְאֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֤הּ וְאֶת־גְּבוּלֶ֙יהָ֙ מִתִּרְצָ֔ה כִּ֛י לֹ֥א פָתַ֖ח וַיַּ֑ךְ אֵ֛ת כָּל־הֶהָ֥רוֹתֶ֖יהָ בִּקֵּֽעַ׃פ

*Word for word:* then he.attacked Menahem (et) Tiphsah and (et) all \[those\].who \[were\].in it and (et) territories its from Tirzah (dm) not it.opened and he.defeated.\[it\] (et) all (the).its pregnant \[women\] he.ripped.open

*JPS 1917:* Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah; because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

[1 Kings 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.4/#tree)

כִּי־ה֞וּא רֹדֶ֣ה ׀ בְּכָל־עֵ֣בֶר הַנָּהָ֗ר מִתִּפְסַח֙ וְעַד־עַזָּ֔ה בְּכָל־מַלְכֵ֖י עֵ֣בֶר הַנָּהָ֑ר וְשָׁל֗וֹם הָ֥יָה ל֛וֹ מִכָּל־עֲבָרָ֖יו מִסָּבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he \[was\].ruling over all the.other.side of the.River from Tiphsah and to Gaza over all the.kings of.the.other.side of the.River and peace it.belonged to him from all sides his from round.about

*JPS 1917:* For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides round about him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8607.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8607/): 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).