טָרַד
to drip
‘to drip’ is one of 2 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
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘act.’
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2956 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Proverbs 2 verses
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.
טרד (ṭârad) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to drip.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Proverbs dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. It first appears in Proverbs 19:13. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2956 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Proverbs 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
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: Are a continual 1×, Continual 1×
- American Standard Version: Are a continual 1×, Continual 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Constant 1×, Is like a constant 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Continual 2×
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Renders H2956 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2956 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2956 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2956 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
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 1 sense 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.
Qal
- Pt. act. וְדֶלֶף טֹרֵד Pr 19:13 a continuous dripping, dropping, i.e. one in which one drop pursues another; so ד׳ טוֹרֵד 27:15; in both sim. of a contentious woman. e.g. Proverbs 19:13
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
vb. pursue, chase, be continuous (Arabic طَرَدَ pursue; ii. prolong one’s voice; viii. continue uninterruptedly; Assyrian ṭarâdu, drive away COTGloss, so Aramaic ܛܪܰܕ, טְרַד)—only
— 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.
טָרַד
- [to move, shake,]
- 1. to be running, to drip. Nidd. 49ᵇ היה טוֹרֵד וכ׳ if the liquid drips drop after drop. Bekh. 44ᵃ (עיניו) טוֹרְדוֹת running eyes (more than דלף); [Ar.: restless, constantly twinkling; oth. opin.: shutting with great trouble, v. infra).
- 2. (of waves) to carry. Tosef. Yeb. XIV, 5 שמא גל טורד אותו וכ׳ (v. ed. Zuck. note) perhaps a wave carries and lands him. Ib. טְרָדַנִי גל לחבירו one wave carried me to the other; (Y. ib. XVI, 15ᵈ top טרפני).
- 3. to make homeless, banish (cmp. טִלְטֵל). Lam. R. to I, 21 טְרָדָהּ חוץ וכ׳ he sent her out of the palace. Gen. R. s. 83 (play on מ̇הי̇טב̇אל בת מט̇ר̇ד̇) שהיו מט̇יב̇ין … ואח"כ טו̇רְדִין וכ׳ they dressed her for her husband and then led her away from her husband. Kidd. 31ᵃ וטוֹרְדוֹ מן העולם and drives him (his father) out of the world (makes him desperate). Midr. Till. to Ps. XXXI, beg. וט׳ אותם מן העולם and drove them into despair, a. fr.—3) to weary, make unsteady. Snh. 22ᵇ; Erub. 64ᵇ דרך טוֹרְדָתוֹ (Taan. 17ᵇ מַטְרִידָתוֹ Hif., Ms. M. everywhere מַטְרַחְתּוֹ, v. טָרַח) walking makes him unsteady (feel the wine).
- 4. to stir up (dregs), trouble. Sabb. 139ᵇ. Nidd. 25ᵃ, sq. מים … וטוֹרְדִין וכ׳ water is strong (is in commotion) and stirs the mass up, opp. מצחצחו makes it clear.—Part. pass. טָרוּד, f. טְרוּדָה; pl. טְרוּדִים, דִין …, טְרוּדוֹת a) busily engaged, troubled, anxious. Gen. R. l. c. (play on מטרד, v. supra) ט׳ היו וכ׳ they were anxious for a living. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᶜ bot. טרודין Asheri to Ber. IX, 13 (ed. Krot. טורדין) uninterrupted lightnings; a. fr.—b) banished. Num. R. s. 7, v. מַטְלוֹן.
- 1. to be troubled, agitated, confused. Num. R. s. 20; Tanḥ. Balak 11, end היה נִטְרָד he became confused, opp. שפוי.
- 2. to be banished. Deut. R. s. 2 יִטָּרֵד למטלון he shall be sent into exile. Deut. R. s. 6 תִּיטָּרֵד וכ׳; a. fr.
- to weary. Taan. 17ᵇ, v. supra.
טְרַד I
- 1. to trouble, stir up, keep in commotion. B. Bath. 168ᵇ הוו קא טַרְדֵּי ליה they were troubling him (begging persistently).—Part. pass. טָרִיד, f. טְרִידָא; pl. טְרִידִין, טְרִידָן. Targ. Is. LVII, 20 (h. text נגרש). Targ. Nah. II, 5 ברקין ט׳, v. preced.—Ber. 16ᵇ הכא ט׳ in the one case his mind is preoccupied. Erub. 68ᵃ טְרִידְנָא בגירסאי I am engrossed in my studies. Snh. 108ᵇ [read:] דהות טריד (or דטְרִידַת; Ms. F., טְרִיחַת, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 9) that thou wert troubled (in my behalf); Yalk. Job 917 [read:] חמית דטרידת וכ׳; a. fr.
- 2. to banish, expel. Targ. Y. Gen. III, 24; a. fr.—
- 1. to be banished. Targ. Prov. XXV, 5. Targ. Y. Gen. XXVII, 45; a. e.
- 2. to be troubled. Ber. 35ᵇ; Yalk. Deut. 863 דלא תִיטַּרְדּוּ וכ׳ that you may not be troubled about support &c.
- 3. to quarrel. Arakh. 16ᵇ אתי לאִיטְּרוּדֵי he may get into a quarrel.
טְרַד II
- (cmp. טרק a. נְטַר) to guard, lock up, bolt. Targ. Y. Gen. XIX, 6 Ar. a. Levita (ed. אחד). Targ. Y. Ex. XIV, 3; a. e.—Lam. R. to I, 1 ט׳ תרעא (חד מירו׳) רבתי locked the door. Ib. to I, 18 טְרוֹדוּ תרעין shut the doors closely.—Y. Keth. VII, 31ᶜ תרעה טָרִיד if her door is found locked, contrad. to מוגף, v. גּוּף I.
- to be locked. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XLIX, 1.
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 2 distinct written forms H2956 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ט֭וֹרֵד | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 27:15 | 1 |
| טֹ֝רֵ֗ד | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 19:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
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