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# תָּפַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8609

**sew together** — used 4 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

sew together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8609/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּפַר: vb. sew together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8609/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sew together (NH id.; Aramaic תְּפַר);— Impf. 3 mpl. וַיִּתְפְּרוּ Gn 3:7 (J) they sewed together fig-leaves (acc.); Pf. 1 s. תָּפַ֫רְתִּי Jb 16:15, c. acc. + עֲלֵי, sackcloth I have sewed upon my skin; Inf. cstr. עֵת לִתְפּוֹר Ec 3:7 a time to sew together (opp. קָרַע). Pt. as subst.f.pl. מְתַפְּרוֹת Ez 13:18 those who keep sewing, c. acc. + עַל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have sewed (1); \[women who\] sew (1); sew (1).

## In the verses

[Job 16:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.15/#tree)

שַׂ֣ק תָּ֭פַרְתִּי עֲלֵ֣י גִלְדִּ֑י וְעֹלַ֖לְתִּי בֶעָפָ֣ר קַרְנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* sackcloth I.have.sewed over skin my and I.have.inserted in the dust horn my

*JPS 1917:* I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.

[Ecclesiastes 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.7/#tree)

עֵ֤ת לִקְר֙וֹעַ֙ וְעֵ֣ת לִתְפּ֔וֹר עֵ֥ת לַחֲשׁ֖וֹת וְעֵ֥ת לְדַבֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* a.time to tear and a.time to sew a.time to be.silent and a.time to speak

*JPS 1917:* A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8609.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8609/): 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).