STRONGS NUMBER H2894


Word Summary
tu or tete: to sweep
Original Word: טוּא
Transliteration: tu or tete
Phonetic Spelling: (too)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sweep
Meaning: to sweep away
Strong's Concordance
sweep

A primitive root; to sweep away -- sweep.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2894. tu

or tete [טֵאטֵא‎] verb Pilpel, only Perfect1singular suffix הַשְׁמֵד בְּמַטְאֲטֵא וְטֵאטֵאתִיהָIsaiah 14:23 and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, of ׳י‎s laying Babylon waste. (Form of √ dubious; עו֞‎ Ol§ 253; עע֞‎ Sta§ 464; undecided Köi. 652 ff. (q. v.), compare Ew§ 121 b.)