Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to smear
Usage: (Qal) to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
Taphal means “sew up” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2950 — kymbalon (“cymbal”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2950 טָּפַל (taphal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. taphal (taw-fal') v. 1. (properly) to stick on as a patch 2. (figuratively) to impute falsely It has 3 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include sewest. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
taphal (taw-fal') v. 1. (properly) to stick on as a patch 2. (figuratively) to impute falsely [a primitive root] KJV: forge(-r), sew up.
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to smear
Usage: (Qal) to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render taphal, 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.
3 indexed usages in Old Testament.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2950.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2950, grouped by book.
Taphal (Strong's H2950) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sew up". taphal (taw-fal') v. 1. (properly) to stick on as a patch 2. (figuratively) to impute falsely
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's H2950 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2950 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sewest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.