Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
tambourine
Usage: timbrel, tambourine
Toph means “tabret” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8596 תּוֹף (toph) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. toph (tofe) n-m. 1. a tambourine [from H8608 contracted] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include timbrel, tabrets, timbrels, and tabret. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
toph (tofe) n-m. 1. a tambourine [from H8608 contracted] KJV: tabret, timbrel. Root(s): H8608
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tambourine
Usage: timbrel, tambourine
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render toph, 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.
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16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8596.
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8596, grouped by book.
Toph (Strong's H8596) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "tabret". toph (tofe) n-m. 1. a tambourine [from H8608 contracted]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H8596 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8596 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as timbrel, tabrets, timbrels, and tabret. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.