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title: טָפַל — smear · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טָפַל (2950), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: smear. BDB 1906: vb. smear plaster stick, glue ṭapilti. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טָפַל

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«טָפַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **smear** — 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:** 2950 · **BDB:** טָפַל

### Glosses

\[are.those.who\].smear (1); they.have.smeared (1); you.have.smeared (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smear [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2950/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. smear plaster stick, glue ṭapilti [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2950/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. smear or plaster (over), stick, glue (NH id., besmear, plaster; Aramaic טְפַל id., fig. attack; טְפֵילָא mortar; ܛܰܦܶܠ defile; Assyrian ṭapâlu, besmear (?), DlPr 48; HWB)— Pf. 3 pl. טָֽפְלוּ ψ 119:69; Impf. 2 ms. וַתִּטְפֹּל Jb 14:17; Pt. pl. cstr. טֹפְלֵי Jb 13:4;—טָֽפְלוּ עָלַי שֶׁקֶר זֵדִים ψ 119:69 insolent men have plastered falsehood over me, ‘making his real character unrecognisable’ (De); טֹפְלֵי שֶׁקֶר Jb 13:4 ye are falsehood-plasterers (‖ רֹפְאֵי אֱלִל); cf. Assyrian amât tašḳirti ṭapilti Ullusum, a speech of falsehood besmearing Ullusum, DlPr 48; וַתִּטְפֹּל עַל־עֲוֹנִי Jb 14:17 and thou hast glued over mine iniquity, i.e. glued it up, for safe keeping against the day of reckoning (‖ חָתֻם בִּצְרוֹר פִּשְׁעִי).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טָפַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2950/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 13:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.4/)

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וְֽאוּלָ֗ם אַתֶּ֥ם טֹֽפְלֵי־שָׁ֑קֶר רֹפְאֵ֖י אֱלִ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and but you \[are.those.who\].smear of.falsehood \[are\].healers of.worthlessness of.you all

*JPS 1917:* But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

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[Job 14:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.17/)

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חָתֻ֣ם בִּצְר֣וֹר פִּשְׁעִ֑י וַ֝תִּטְפֹּ֗ל עַל־עֲוֺנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[will.be\].sealed.up in a.bag transgression my and you.have.smeared over iniquity my

*JPS 1917:* My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou heapest up mine iniquity.

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