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# תָּפַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8608

**sound the timbrel** — 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

sound the timbrel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8608/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּפַף: vb. denom. sound the timbrel, beat Poʿēl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8608/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. sound the timbrel, beat;— Pt. עֲלָמוֹת תֹּפֵפוֹת ψ 68:26; read Impf. וַיָּ֫תָף 1 S 21:14 𝔊 (v. תוה). Poʿēl. Pt. כְּקוֹל יוֹנִים מְתֹפְפֹת עַל־לִבְבֵהֶן Na 2:8; \> Sta (after 𝔊) מְצַפְצְפוֹת twittering.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: \[they are\] beating (1); \[who were\] playing tambourines (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/#tree)

קִדְּמ֣וּ שָׁ֭רִים אַחַ֣ר נֹגְנִ֑ים בְּת֥וֹךְ עֲ֝לָמ֗וֹת תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* they.went.in.front singers \[were\].behind musicians among young.women \[who.were\].playing.tambourines

*JPS 1917:* The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels.

[Nahum 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.8/#tree)

וְהֻצַּ֖ב גֻּלְּתָ֣ה הֹֽעֲלָ֑תָה וְאַמְהֹתֶ֗יהָ מְנַֽהֲגוֹת֙ כְּק֣וֹל יוֹנִ֔ים מְתֹפְפֹ֖ת עַל־לִבְבֵהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.been.fixed it.was.uncovered it.was.taken.away and maidservants its \[are\].moaning like.\[the\] sound of.doves \[they.are\].beating on hearts their

*JPS 1917:* And the queen is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8608.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8608/): 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).