tuach · plaster

What it means

tuach (טוּחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plaster”.

Cover a wall with clay or lime. Also smear, coat over.

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. To coat a wall with mud, lime or gold.
2. To cover with a coat, so that nothing is seen or understood.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• plaster ×3
• has been plastered ×2
• those who plastered ×2
• you plastered ×2
• have plastered ×1
• he has smeared over ×1
• overlay ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×7

• Leviticus 14:42

  They shall take other stones and put them in place of the stones, and he shall take other clay and plaster the house.

• Leviticus 14:43

  And if the mark returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, and after scraping the house and after it has been plastered,

• Leviticus 14:48

  But if the priest indeed comes and examines it, and, look, the mark has not spread in the house after the house has been plastered, the priest shall declare clean the house, for the mark has been healed.

• 1 Chronicles 29:4

  three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses;

• Isaiah 44:18

  They do not know, nor understand, for he has smeared over their eyes, so that they cannot see, their hearts, so that they cannot have insight.

• 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 13:12

  And look, the wall has fallen! Will it not be said to you, “Where is the plaster that you plastered”?

• 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.

And 1 more times.