טָפַח
tafach · spread out, nurse
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2946 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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tafach (טָפַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spread out, nurse”.
To spread out with the palm of the hand; also to nurse and raise a child.
How to say it
ta·fach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To open and spread something with the hand, as a tent is spread.
- To care lovingly for a child, hold him in one's arms and raise him.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- I raised with care ×1
- spread out ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 48:13
Also my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; I call to them, they stand together.
- Lamentations 2:22
You have summoned, as on a day of appointed feast, my terrors from all around; and there was not in the day of the anger of YHWH a fugitive or a survivor; those whom I raised with care and brought up, my enemy has consumed them.