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title: טֹוטָפֹת — bands · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טֹוטָפֹת (2903), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: bands. BDB 1906: n.f.pl. bands. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טֹוטָפֹת

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«טֹוטָפֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bands** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 2903 · **BDB:** טוֹטָפוֹת

### Glosses

marks (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bands [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2903/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f.pl. bands [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2903/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.pl. bands (NH טוֹטֶפֶת; Aramaic טוֹטֶפְתָּא, and especially pl. טוטפין id.)—always bands, frontlet-bands, between the eyes (‖ אוֹת על יד; cf. זִכָּרוֹן בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ Ex 13:9 ‖ id.); fig. of dedication of firstborn וְהָיָה … לְטוֹטָפֹת בין עיניך Ex 13:16 (JE); of commandments of י׳, וְהָיוּ לְטו׳ Dt 11:18 and וְהָיוּ לְטֹטָפת Dt 6:8.—This injunction, orig. fig. for perpetual remembrance (otherwise Kn and Kleinl.c. 666 ff., vid. supr., BenzArch. 111 NowArch. i. 134), was taken literally by later Jews, and hence the custom of wearing phylacteries; v. Di (on Ex 13:16) WinerRE RiHWB (art. Denkzettel) SmithDict. Bib. (art. Frontlets) StaZAW 1894, 312 f., 317.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טֹוטָפֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2903/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.6.8/)

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וּקְשַׁרְתָּ֥ם לְא֖וֹת עַל־יָדֶ֑ךָ וְהָי֥וּ לְטֹטָפֹ֖ת בֵּ֥ין עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and you will.tie.them for a.sign on hand your and they.will.be for marks between eyes your

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

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[Exodus 13:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.16/)

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וְהָיָ֤ה לְאוֹת֙ עַל־יָ֣דְכָ֔ה וּלְטוֹטָפֹ֖ת בֵּ֣ין עֵינֶ֑יךָ כִּ֚י בְּחֹ֣זֶק יָ֔ד הוֹצִיאָ֥נוּ יְהוָ֖ה מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.become (into).a sign on hand your and (into) marks between eyes your (dm) by strength of.hand he brought.us.out Yahweh from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes; for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.'

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