Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to tear
Usage: 1) to tear, rend, pluck 1a) (Qal) to tear, rend 1b) (Niphal) to be torn in pieces 1c) (Poal) to be torn in pieces 1d) (Hiphil) to provide food
Taraph means “catch” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2963 — kyriotes (“dominion”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2963 טָּרַף (taraph) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. taraph (taw-raf') v. 1. to pluck off or pull to pieces 2. causatively to supply with food (as in morsels) It has 22 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include pieces, is, catch, food, and off. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
taraph (taw-raf') v. 1. to pluck off or pull to pieces 2. causatively to supply with food (as in morsels) [a primitive root] KJV: catch, X without doubt, feed, ravin, rend in pieces, X surely, tear (in pieces).
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to tear
Usage: 1) to tear, rend, pluck 1a) (Qal) to tear, rend 1b) (Niphal) to be torn in pieces 1c) (Poal) to be torn in pieces 1d) (Hiphil) to provide food
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render taraph, 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.
22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2963.
And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2963, grouped by book.
Taraph (Strong's H2963) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "catch". taraph (taw-raf') v. 1. to pluck off or pull to pieces 2. causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H2963 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2963 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pieces, is, catch, food, and off. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.