תָּפַשׂ taphas

Hebrew word for “to capture” · Strong’s H8610 · used 65 times in 60 verses

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Meaning

1) to catch, handle, lay hold, take hold of, seize, wield;

How it is translated

Glosses given for taphas in context, with how often each is used:

• seized 16
• caught 6
• seize 6
• will seize 5
• capture 2
• will be captured 2
• who wield 2
• will be seized 2
• will be caught 2
• player 1
• those skilled 1
• when have captured 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 50 (3), Ezekiel 21 (3), Joshua 8 (2), 2 Kings 14 (2), Proverbs 30 (2), Jeremiah 37 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Ezekiel 19 (2), Genesis 4 (1), Genesis 39 (1)

Forms

• תפשׂי 6
• תפשׂ 5
• ויתפשׂ 4
• נתפשׂה 3
• תפשׂום 3
• ותפשׂ 3
• ויתפשׂו 3
• תתפשׂ 3
• תפשׂו 2
• ויתפשׂום 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with taphas more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בָּבֶל bavel “Babylon” 10
• כַּשְׂדִּים kasdi “Chaldea” 5
• עִיר ir “city” 8
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 8
• מָלַט malat “to escape” 4
• רֶשֶׁת reshet “net” 3
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 5
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 6
• חַי chay “alive” 5
• יִרְאִיָּיה yiriyyah “Irijah” 2
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 4
• פָּרַשׂ paras “to spread” 3

Key verses

The verses using taphas that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 23:26 — And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and…
• 1 Kings 13:4 — And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the…
• 1 Kings 18:40 — And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and…
• Psalms 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
• Proverbs 30:9 — Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
• Jeremiah 2:8 — The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by…
• Jeremiah 26:8 — Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the…
• Jeremiah 37:13 — And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took…
• Jeremiah 49:16 — Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though…
• Ezekiel 12:13 — My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it,…
• Ezekiel 17:20 — And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he…
• Habakkuk 2:19 — Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.