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# תֹּפֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8611

**spitting** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spitting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8611/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּ֫פֶת: n.f. spitting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8611/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. act of spitting;—abs. וְת׳ לְפָנִים Jb 17:6 a spitting in the face do I become, i.e. men spit in my face (‖ לִמְשֹׁל עַמִּים; Perles Baer Bu מֹפֵת לִפְנֵיהֶם).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a spitting (1).

## In the verses

[Job 17:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.6/#tree)

וְֽ֭הִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְתֹ֖פֶת לְפָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he has.set.me to use.a.proverb peoples and a.spitting to.\[the\] face I.am

*JPS 1917:* He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8611.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8611/): 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).