taf · little ones

What it means

taf (טַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “little ones”.

The children of a family.

How to say it

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. Small children, who depend on their parents and are taken along.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×3
• Numbers×10
• Deuteronomy×7
• Joshua×2
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Esther×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 34:29

  All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives they took captive and plundered, and all that was in the house.

• Genesis 43:8

  Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the young man with me, and we will get up and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you and our little ones.

• Genesis 45:19

  And you are commanded: ‘Do this: take for yourselves from the land of Egypt carts for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

• Genesis 46:5

  Then Jacob set out from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

• Genesis 47:12

  Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number of their little ones.

• Genesis 47:24

  And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours, as seed for the field and as your food and for those in your households, and as food for your little ones.”

• Genesis 50:8

  and all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household; only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

• Genesis 50:21

  So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke to their heart.

• Exodus 10:10

  He said to them, “So may YHWH be with you, as I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have evil in view.

• Exodus 10:24

  Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, “Go, serve YHWH; only let your flocks and your herds be left behind; even your little ones may go with you.”

• Exodus 12:37

  The sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones.

• Numbers 14:3

  And why is YHWH bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

• Numbers 14:31

  But your little ones, whom you said would become plunder, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

• Numbers 16:27

  So they moved away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, from around; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrance of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

• Numbers 31:9

  The sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their animals and all their livestock and all their wealth they looted.

• Numbers 31:17

  Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with a male.

• Numbers 31:18

  But all the little ones among the women who have not known lying with a male, keep alive for yourselves.

• Numbers 32:16

  They came near to him and said, “We will build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.

• Numbers 32:17

  But we will arm ourselves and go ready before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

• Numbers 32:24

  Build for yourselves cities for your little ones and pens for your sheep, and what has come out of your mouth do.”

• Numbers 32:26

  Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals shall be there in the cities of Gilead,

• Deuteronomy 1:39

  And your little ones, who you said would become plunder, and your sons, who today do not know good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.

• Deuteronomy 2:34

  We captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones; we left no survivor.

• Deuteronomy 3:6

  We devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones.

• Deuteronomy 3:19

  Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities that I have given you,

• Deuteronomy 20:14

  Only the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you may take as plunder for yourself; and you may eat the spoil of your enemies, which YHWH your Elohim has given you.

• Deuteronomy 29:11

  your little ones, your wives, and your resident alien who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

• Deuteronomy 31:12

  Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your resident alien who is within your gates, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and fear YHWH your Elohim and take care to do all the words of this instruction;

• Joshua 1:14

  Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross in battle formation before your brothers, all the mighty warriors, and help them,

• Joshua 8:35

  There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women and the little ones and the resident alien who walked among them.

• Judges 18:21

  So they turned and went, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods in front of them.

• Judges 21:10

  So the community sent there twelve thousand men of the men of valor, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

• 2 Samuel 15:22

  David said to Ittai, “Go and cross over.” So Ittai the Gittite crossed over, and all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

• 2 Chronicles 20:13

  And all Judah was standing before YHWH, also their little ones, their wives and their sons.

• 2 Chronicles 31:18

  and they were enrolled in the genealogy with all their little ones, their wives, their sons and their daughters, for the whole assembly; for in their faithfulness they sanctified themselves in holiness.

• Ezra 8:21

  And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our Elohim, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our goods.

• Esther 3:13

  And letters were sent by the hand of the couriers to all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to make perish all the Jews, from the young man to the old man, little ones and women, on one day, the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their spoil.

• Esther 8:11

  in which the king granted the Jews who were in every city permission to assemble and to stand for their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to make perish any army of any people or province that might harass them, little ones and women, and to plunder their spoil,

• Jeremiah 40:7

  And all the chiefs of the forces who were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam in the land, and that he had entrusted to him men and women and little ones, and some of the poor of the land, of those who had not been carried into exile to Babylon;

• Jeremiah 41:16

  Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the chiefs of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had brought back from Ishmael son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam: men, men of war, and women and little ones and court officials, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

And 2 more times.