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Lexicon :: Strong's H8610 - tāp̄aś

Aa
תָּפַשׂ
Transliteration
tāp̄aś
Pronunciation
taw-fas'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2538

Strong’s Definitions

תָּפַשׂ tâphas, taw-fas'; a primitive root; to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably:—catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, × surely, surprise, take.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x

The KJV translates Strong's H8610 in the following manner: take (27x), taken (12x), handle (8x), hold (8x), catch (4x), surprised (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x
The KJV translates Strong's H8610 in the following manner: take (27x), taken (12x), handle (8x), hold (8x), catch (4x), surprised (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. to catch, handle, lay hold, take hold of, seize, wield

    1. (Qal)

      1. to lay hold of, seize, arrest, catch

      2. to grasp (in order to) wield, wield, use skilfully

    2. (Niphal) to be seized, be arrested, be caught, be taken, captured

    3. (Piel) to catch, grasp (with the hands)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תָּפַשׂ tâphas, taw-fas'; a primitive root; to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably:—catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, × surely, surprise, take.
STRONGS H8610: Abbreviations
† תָּפַשׂ verb lay hold of, wield (= Late Hebrew תָּפַשׂ, תָּפַם, Aramaic תְּפַשׂ, תְּפַם); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ת׳ 2 Kings 14:13 +, suffix consecutive וּתְפָשָׂהּ Deuteronomy 22:28, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִתְפּשֹׁ Isaiah 3:6, 1st person plural נִתְפְּשֵׂם 2 Kings 7:12, etc.; Imperative masculine plural תִּפְשׂוּ 1 Kings 18:40, etc.; Infinitive absolute תָּפשֹׁ Jeremiah 34:3; construct תְּפשֹׁ Ezekiel 14:5, לִתְפֹּשׂ Ezekiel 21:16; Ezekiel 30:21, suffix לְתָפְשָׂהּ Deuteronomy 20:19, etc.; Participle תֹּפֵשׂ Genesis 4:21 +, construct תֹּפְשִׂי Jeremiah 49:16 (Ges§ 90 1), etc.; —
1. lay hold of, seize (with the hand), accusative of person, Genesis 39:12 (J; + בְּבִגְדוֺ), also (ב person) Isaiah 3:6; Deuteronomy 21:19; Jeremiah 37:14; Ezekiel 29:7 (in figurative; + ב instrumental); with ב of thing 1 Kings 11:30; Deuteronomy 9:17; arrest, catch, accusative of person 1 Samuel 23:26; 1 Kings 13:4; 1 Kings 18:40 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 26:8; Jeremiah 37:13; 2 Kings 14:13 2 Chronicles 25:23; 2 Kings 25:6 = Jeremiah 52:9; Psalm 71:11; in phrase catch, capture alive (חַי), accusative of person Joshua 8:28 (JE), 1 Samuel 15:8; 1 Kings 20:18 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 7:12; 2 Kings 10:14 (twice in verse); seize city (accusative) Joshua 8:8 (JE), 2 Kings 14:7; 2 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 18:13 = Isaiah 36:1; Deuteronomy 20:9; Jeremiah 40:10; figurative Ezekiel 14:5 seize Israel (accusative) by (ב) their heart (terrorize them); Proverbs 30:9 seize (do violence to) the name (accusative) of my God; תָּפוּשׂ זָהָב Habakkuk 2:19 grasped (sheathed) in gold; מְרוֺם גִּבְעָה ת׳ Jeremiah 49:16 holding (occupying) the height of the hill.
2. grasp in order to wield, wield, use skilfully : grasp sword בַּכָּף Ezekiel 21:16 (accusative omitted), compare Ezekiel 30:21 (ב of sword), and especially participle: תִּפֵשׂ הַקֶּשֶׁת Amos 2:15, תֹּפֵשׂ כִנּוֺר Genesis 4:21 (J), מַגָּל ת׳ Jeremiah 50:16, תֹּפְשֵׂי מָגֵן Jeremiah 46:9a (strike out ת׳ Jeremiah 46:9b Greek Version of the LXX Gie Co Du), מָשׁוֺט ת׳ Ezekiel 27:29, חֲרָבוֺת Ezekiel 38:4; even הַתּוֺרָה ת׳ Jeremiah 2:8 they that handle (deal with, are expert in) the law, הַמִּלְחָמָה ת׳ Numbers 31:27 (P) those skilled in war. — Jeremiah 34:8 see below.
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִתְפַּשׂ Ezekiel 19:4, 2nd person feminine singular נִתְפַּשְׂתְּ Jeremiah 50:24, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular וַתִּתָּפֵשׂ Jeremiah 51:41, 2nd person masculine singular תִּתָּפֵשׂ Jeremiah 34:3; Jeremiah 38:23, etc.; Infinitive construct לְהִתָּפֵשׂ Ezekiel 21:28; — be seized, arrested, caught (sometimes || נִלְכַּד), subject person, Jeremiah 38:23 (ב instrumental), Jeremiah 50:24 (figurative of Babylonian), also (with ב instrumental) Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:20; Ezekiel 19:4, 8 (both figurative of Israel), Ezekiel 21:29, and (without ב) Ezekiel 21:28; Numbers 5:13; + Infinitive absolute Qal תָּפשֹׁ תִּתָּפֵשׂ Jeremiah 34:3; be seized, of fortress, city Jeremiah 48:41 (both || נִלְכַּד), Jeremiah 50:46, compare Jeremiah 51:32; figurative Psalm 10:2 may they be caught in (ב) the devices which they have planned.
Pi. Imperfect 2nd person masculine singular תְּחַפֵּשׂ Proverbs 30:28 a lizard thou mayest grasp with the hands (ב); — or read תִּתָּפֵשׂ Niph. Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular, see De Toy.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:21; 4:21; 39:12

Numbers

5:13; 31:27

Deuteronomy

9:17; 20:9; 20:19; 21:19; 22:28

Joshua

8:8; 8:28

1 Samuel

15:8; 23:26

1 Kings

11:30; 13:4; 18:40; 18:40; 20:18

2 Kings

7:12; 7:12; 10:14; 14:7; 14:13; 14:13; 16:9; 18:13; 25:6

2 Chronicles

25:23

Psalms

10:2; 71:11

Proverbs

30:9; 30:28

Isaiah

3:6; 3:6; 36:1

Jeremiah

2:8; 26:8; 34:3; 34:3; 34:3; 34:8; 37:13; 37:14; 38:23; 38:23; 40:10; 46:9; 46:9; 48:41; 49:16; 49:16; 50:16; 50:24; 50:24; 50:46; 51:32; 51:41; 52:9

Ezekiel

12:13; 14:5; 14:5; 17:20; 19:4; 19:4; 19:8; 21:16; 21:16; 21:28; 21:28; 21:29; 27:29; 29:7; 30:21; 30:21; 38:4

Amos

2:15

Habakkuk

2:19

H8610

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Strong's Number H8610 matches the Hebrew תָּפַשׂ (tāp̄aś),
which occurs 65 times in 60 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 4:21–Eze 19:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21 - And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:27 - And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19 - If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 - If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:8 - And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:23 - But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:26 - And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30 - And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:18 - And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, This is my idea of what the Aramaeans have done to us. They have knowledge that we are without food; and so they have gone out of their tents, and are waiting secretly in the open country, saying, When they come out of the town, we will take them living and get into the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - And he said, Take them living. So they took them living, and put them to death in the water-hole of Beth-eked; of the forty-two men he put every one to death;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 - He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:9 - And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:2 - The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:11 - Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:9 - For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:28 - You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6 - When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:8 - The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:8 - Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3 - And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - Then Jeremiah said, That is not true; I am not going to the Chaldaeans. But he would not give ear to him: so Irijah made him prisoner and took him to the rulers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away out of their hands, but will be taken by the hands of the king of Babylon: and this town will be burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:10 - As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:41 - Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:16 - Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:24 - I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:46 - At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:32 - And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:9 - Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:13 - And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20 - My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.

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