טוּל
to hurl
‘to hurl’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”). Here: ‘be hurled’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Pilpel
- A reduplicated intensive stem of two-letter or hollow roots.
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2904 appears in the Book of 1 Samuel — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 18:11 וַ/יָּ֤טֶל conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice.
- 1 Samuel 20:33 וַ/יָּ֨טֶל conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to hurl” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb טול (ṭûwl). First canonically at 1 Samuel 18:11, it enters the text early. It turns up in 14 verses across 8 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Jonah, which alone accounts for 29% of its uses. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 3 stems, among them Hiphil and Hophal. See the sense tree, 14-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2904 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 79%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 21%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Cast 2×
- American Standard Version: Cast 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hurled 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 2×, Hurled 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2904 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2904 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2904 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2904 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil) and one or more reduplicated stems (the Pōlēl/Pilpēl type), which for hollow or geminate roots behave much like Piel — often intensive or iterative.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Pilp
- . hurleth thee violently
Hiphil
- . cast, cast out
Hophal
- 1. be hurled
- 2. of inanimate thing, be cast, thrown
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
[ טוּל ] vb. Pilp. etc., hurl, cast
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
טוֹל
- , imperat. of נָטַל, נְטַל.
טוּל I
- Pi. טִיֵּיל
- 1. to walk about, to be at leisure, to enjoy one’s self. Snh. 102ᵃ נְטַיֵּיל בג"ע we shall walk about in paradise. Succ. 28ᵇ ומְטַיֵּיל בסוכה and enjoys himself &c. Tosef. Sabb. XVI (XVII), 18; Tosef. Bets. II, 10, v. טְרִיקְלִין. Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 3; a. fr.
- 2. to make walk. Ib. טִיַּילְתַּנִי עמך thou madest me walk by thy side.
טוּל
- , to walk about, stride. Targ. Jer. L, 11 (h. text צהל; cmp. Targ. ib. VIII, 16).
- 1. to walk, travel. Targ. Y. Gen. XXIV, 61. Targ. Y. Num. XXII, 20. Targ. Ps. LXVIII, 8 טַיַּילְתָּא (ed. Wil. טְיַלְ׳; h. text צעד); a. fr.
- 2. as preced. Pi.—Targ. Y. Gen. III, 8 (h. text מתהלך).—Y. Ber. III, 6ᵃ, a. fr. הוו מְטַיְּילִין וכ׳ were walking about &c. B. Bath. 91ᵇ כד הוו מְטַיְּילָן וכ׳ when boys and girls used to play &c. Succ. 53ᵃ הוה מט׳ קמיה וכ׳ (Ar. מטלל) was sporting before &c., v. טְלַל; a. fr.
- 3. to drive off, send away. Targ. Y. Deut. XXIV, 1; 3 (ed. pr. ישיל, corr. acc.).
- to cause to travel. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 52 Ms. (ed. אַטֵּיל).
טוּל II
- (טלל) = h. צֵל, shade, shadow. Targ. Jud. IX, 36; a. fr.—Yoma 74ᵇ תוב בט׳ sit in the shade.—Gitt. 17ᵃ או בטוּלָּךְ וכ׳ either let us live in thy shadow (protection) or in the shadow of the son of Esau (Rome). Snh. 18ᵇ בט׳ תאינה in the shade of a fig-tree; Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ top בטֻל תינתא; Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ bot. בטיל הינתא (corr. acc.); a. fr.—Pl. טוּלַּיָּא, טוּלֵּי. Targ. Jer. VI, 4; a. e.—Targ. Is. IX, 1 בארע טולי מותא ed. Lag (oth. ed. טוּלֵימוֹתָא in one word, h. text צלמית).—Pes. 111ᵇ חמשה ט׳ וכ׳ there are five shades (where demons dwell); a. e.—V. טְלָלָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms H2904 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2904, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
