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תָּפֵל

tafel · tasteless, whitewash

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8602 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

tafel (תָּפֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tasteless, whitewash”.

What is tasteless, without flavor; also a sticky paste, like plaster on a wall. Figuratively, something empty.

How to say it

ta·fel

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

  1. Flavorless; what is empty and useless.
  2. Pale plaster put on a wall.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • whitewash ×5
  • Can what is tasteless ×1
  • insipid ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Job 6:6

    Can what is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there flavor in the slime of the purslane?

  • Lamentations 2:14

    Your prophets have seen for you what is empty and insipid, and they have not exposed your iniquity to bring back your captivity; they have seen for you burdens that are empty and deceptions.

  • Ezekiel 13:10

    Because, yes, because they have led astray my people, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and when he builds a partition wall, look, they plaster it with whitewash,

  • Ezekiel 13:11

    say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a torrential rain, and you, hailstones, will fall, and a wind of storms will burst it open.

  • Ezekiel 13:14

    And I will tear down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the earth, and its foundation will be laid bare; and it will fall, and you will be consumed in its midst; and you will know that I am YHWH.

  • Ezekiel 13:15

    And I will spend my fury on the wall and on those who plastered it with whitewash, and I will say to you, “The wall is no more, and those who plastered it are no more,”

  • Ezekiel 22:28

    And her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing emptiness and divining for them a lie, saying, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH,’ when YHWH has not spoken.