King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H2950
Transliteration: taphal
Phonetic Spelling: (taw-fal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
Meaning: to stick on as a, patch, to impute falsely
Word Summary
taphal: to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
Original Word: טָפַלTransliteration: taphal
Phonetic Spelling: (taw-fal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
Meaning: to stick on as a, patch, to impute falsely
Strong's Concordance
forger, sew up A primitive root; properly, to stick on as a patch; figuratively, to impute falsely -- forge(-r), sew up.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2950. taphal
[טָפַל] verb smear or plaster (over), stick, glue (Late Hebrew id., besmear, plaster; Aramaic טְפַל id., figurative attack; טְפֵילָא mortar; defile; Assyrian ‰apâlu, besmear (?), DlPr 48; HWB) —
Qal Perfect3plural טָֽפְלוּ Psalm 119:69; Imperfect2masculine singular וַתִּטְמֹּל Job 14:17 Participle plural construct טֹפְלֵי 13:4; — זֵדִים שֶׁקֶר עָלַי טָֽפְלוּ Psalm 119:69 insolent men have plastered falsehood over me, 'making his real character unrecognisable' (De); שֶׁקֶר טִפְלֵי Job 13:4 ye are falsehood-plasterers ("" אֱלִל רֹפְאֵי); compare Assyrian amât taš‡irti tâpilti Ullusum, a speech of falsehood besmearing Ullusum, DtPr 48; עַלעֲֿוֺנִי וַתִּטְמֹּל 14:17 and thou hast glued over mine iniquity, i.e. glued it up, for safe keeping against the day of reckoning ("" מִּשְׁעִי בִּצְרוֺר חָתֻם).