טְפַר
tefar · nail, claw
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H2953 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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tefar (טְפַר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “nail, claw”.
(Aramaic).
How to say it
te·far
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
- The hard part at the end of the finger; also the claw of an animal or bird.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- claws ×1
- nails ×1
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 4:33
At that very moment the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and from men he was driven away, and grass like oxen he ate, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 7:19
Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrifying, whose teeth were of iron and its claws of bronze, which devoured, crushed, and trampled the rest with its feet;