תָּפַר
tafar · sew
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8609 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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tafar (תָּפַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sew”.
How to say it
ta·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
- To join cloth or skins with needle and thread, to cover oneself or mend.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sew ×2
- I have sewn ×1
- they sewed together ×1
Where it appears
- Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.
- Job 16:15
Sackcloth I have sewn on my skin, and thrust my horn into the dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:7
a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
- Ezekiel 13:18
and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Woe to the women who sew pads on all the wrists of my hands, and make the veils for the head of every stature to hunt souls! The souls of my people you hunt, and souls for yourselves you keep alive!