Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to overspread
Usage: 1) to spread over, overlay, plaster, cover over, coat, besmear 1a) (Qal) to overspread, coat, overlay 1b) (Niphal) to be coated, be plastered
Tuach means “smear” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2902 — krateo (“retain”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2902 טּוַּח (tuwach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tuwach (too'-akh) v. 1. to smear, especially with lime [a primitive root] It has 11 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include daubed, plaistered, plaister, overlay, and daub. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tuwach (too'-akh) v. 1. to smear, especially with lime [a primitive root] KJV: daub, overlay, plaister, smut.
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to overspread
Usage: 1) to spread over, overlay, plaster, cover over, coat, besmear 1a) (Qal) to overspread, coat, overlay 1b) (Niphal) to be coated, be plastered
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tuwach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
11 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2902.
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2902, grouped by book.
Tuach (Strong's H2902) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "smear". tuwach (too'-akh) v. 1. to smear, especially with lime [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's H2902 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2902 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as daubed, plaistered, plaister, overlay, daub, and daubing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.