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טְרֵפָה

terefa · torn animal

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2966 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

terefa (טְרֵפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “torn animal”.

An animal torn by a wild beast.

How to say it

te·re·fa

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. An animal torn by a wild beast.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • one torn by beasts ×3
  • What was torn by beasts ×2
  • torn by beasts ×2
  • torn flesh ×1
  • what was torn ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 31:39

    What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it; from my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

  • Exodus 22:13

    If it is actually torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence; for what was torn he shall not repay.

  • Exodus 22:31

    You shall be holy men to me; flesh torn by beasts in the field you shall not eat; to the dogs you shall throw it.

  • Leviticus 7:24

    The fat of a carcass and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other work, but you shall certainly not eat it.

  • Leviticus 17:15

    And any person who eats an animal that died or one torn by beasts, whether native or resident alien, shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.

  • Leviticus 22:8

    An animal that died or one torn by beasts he shall not eat, becoming unclean by it. I am YHWH.

  • Ezekiel 4:14

    And I said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Look, my soul has not been defiled; a carcass or what was torn by beasts I have not eaten from my youth until now, and no repulsive meat has come into my mouth.”

  • Ezekiel 44:31

    Any animal that died or one torn by beasts, from the birds or from the livestock, the priests shall not eat.’”

  • Nahum 2:12

    The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.