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title: טֶרֶף — prey · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טֶרֶף (2965), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: prey. BDB 1906: n.m. prey, food; leaf. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טֶרֶף

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«טֶרֶף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **prey** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2965 · **BDB:** טֶ֫רֶף

### Glosses

freshly.plucked (1); the.fresh.\[things\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

prey [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2965/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. prey, food; leaf [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2965/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Na 3:1 prey, food; leaf;—טֶרֶף Gn 49:9 +; טָ֑רֶף Jb 4:11 +; sf. טַרְפֵּךְ Na 2:14; טַרְפּוֹ Is 31:4; pl. cstr. טַרְפֵּי Ez 17:9;— prey of lion Am 3:4 Jb 4:11; 38:39 ψ 104:21; metaph. of Judah’s conquests Gn 49:9, Israel like lion Nu 23:24 (both poems in JE); of Assyrians Is 5:29; of Nineveh and its king Na 2:13, 14; 3:1; Israel’s princes (as young lion) Ez 19:3, 6; sim. of false prophet (like lion) 22:25; of princes of Judah v 27; sim. of י’s descending to battle, like lion Is 31:4; cf. ψ 76:5 coming down from mountains of prey (the lion’s lair), but read perhaps עַד, cf. 𝔊 Bi Che crit. n.; fig. of spoil of wicked Jb 29:17, cf. ψ 124:6. food, of outcasts, under fig. of wild ass פֶּרֶא Jb 24:5; of human food (late): for those who fear God ψ 111:5; for household Pr 31:15; in י׳’s house Mal 3:10. leaf, (cf. Gn 8:11) טַרְפֵּי צִמְחָהּ Ez 17:9 metaph. of Judah.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טֶרֶף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2965/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 8:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.11/)

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וַתָּבֹ֨א אֵלָ֤יו הַיּוֹנָה֙ לְעֵ֣ת עֶ֔רֶב וְהִנֵּ֥ה עֲלֵה־זַ֖יִת טָרָ֣ף בְּפִ֑יהָ וַיֵּ֣דַע נֹ֔חַ כִּי־קַ֥לּוּ הַמַּ֖יִם מֵעַ֥ל הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.came to him the dove to.\[the\] time of.evening and there! a.leaf of.olive freshly.plucked \[was\].in mouth its and he.knew Noah (dm).that they.were.abated the waters from on the earth

*JPS 1917:* And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

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[Ezekiel 17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.9/)

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אֱמֹ֗ר כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהֹוִ֖ה תִּצְלָ֑ח הֲלוֹא֩ אֶת־שָׁרָשֶׁ֨יהָ יְנַתֵּ֜ק וְאֶת־פִּרְיָ֣הּ ׀ יְקוֹסֵ֣ס וְיָבֵ֗שׁ כָּל־טַרְפֵּ֤י צִמְחָהּ֙ תִּיבָ֔שׁ וְלֹֽא־בִזְרֹ֤עַ גְּדוֹלָה֙ וּבְעַם־רָ֔ב לְמַשְׂא֥וֹת אוֹתָ֖הּ מִשָּׁרָשֶֽׁיהָ׃

*Word for word:* say thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh will.it.prosper? ? not (et) roots its will.it.pull.up and (et) fruit its will.it.strip.off? and it.will.wither all the.fresh.\[things\] its.growth her it.will.wither and not by an.arm great and by a.people numerous to lift.up it from roots its

*JPS 1917:* Say thou: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither, yea, wither in all its sprouting leaves? neither shall great power or much people be at hand when it is plucked up by the roots thereof.

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