תֹּ֫פֶל
Tophel
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Tophel’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8603 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
About this entry
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“Tophel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name תפל (Tôphel). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Deuteronomy. A true hapax — its single appearance is Deuteronomy 1:1. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8603 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Tophel 1×
- American Standard Version: Tophel 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tophel 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tophel 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8603 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8603 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8603 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8603 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Tophel = "white"
- a place southeast of the Dead Sea and in or near the 'Arabah'
Word origin
n.pr.loc. in, or near, the ʿArabah;—Dt 1:1; = mod. Ṭafîleh, 15 m. SE. of Dead Sea RobBR ii. 187 v. BurckhardtTravels 402 f., but Ṭ = ת improb. v. Di Dr; 𝔊 Τοφολ (cf. LagBN 54).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תפל (tâphêl) (H8602) — tasteless.
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.
תָּפַל
- (v. טָפַל)
- 1. to paste. Tosef. Pes. V, 10 ואין תּוֹפְלִין וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (oth. ed. טוֹפְלִין) you must not paste them over with potter’s clay &c. (to take the hair off), v. טָפַל.
- 2. (cmp. טוּחַ, a. טְפַל) to denounce, slander. Sifré Deut. 1 (play on תֹּפֶל, Deut. I, 1) דברי תפלות שתָּפְלוּ על המן the frivolous words which they cast on the manna; Yalk. ib. 790 שתפלו על המן when they slandered the manna. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:1
תָּפֵל
- (preced.)
- 1. (b. h.) [paste, viscous substance,] tasteless matter, insipid, not salted. Sabb. 128ᵃ בשר ת׳ unsalted (raw) meat, opp. מליח. Ib. דג ת׳ raw fish.—
- *2. dependent, child. — Pl. תְּפֵילִין. Y. Shebi. VII, beg. 37ᵇ, v. אֲלוּנְטִית II; [perh. לת׳ for pastes, plasters].—[Tosef. Sot. VI, 8 על התפל ed. Zuck., v. תִּפְלָה.]
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8603, 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.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Tophel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Lime, a place in the wilderness of Sinai (Deut. 1:1), now identified with Tafyleh or Tufileh, on the west side of the Edomitish mountains.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(mortar), (1:1) has been identified with Tufileh on a wady of the same name running north of Bozra toward the southeast corner of the Dead Sea.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
ruin; folly; without understanding
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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