taval (to dip) · Rightly

Meaning

To dip, dip into, plunge(Qal) · (Niphal) to be dipped

How it's translated

and he will dip 6
and he dipped 4
and you will dip 2
and they dipped 1
and dips 1
they were dipped 1
you will dip me 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Leviticus 6
2 Kings 2
Genesis 1
Exodus 1
Numbers 1
Deuteronomy 1

10 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Exodus 12:22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Leviticus 4:6And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 4:17And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
Leviticus 9:9And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
Leviticus 14:6As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
Leviticus 14:16And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:

All 16 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 37:31
Exodus 1: 12:22
Leviticus 6: 4:6 4:17 9:9 14:6 14:16 14:51
Numbers 1: 19:18
Deuteronomy 1: 33:24
Joshua 1: 3:15
Ruth 1: 2:14
1 Samuel 1: 14:27
2 Kings 2: 5:14 8:15
Job 1: 9:31

Hebrew dictionary

טָבַל taval · to dip

1) to dip, dip into, plunge 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to dip in or into 1a2) to dip oneself 1b) (Niphal) to be dipped

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “dip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DIP, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive dipped or dipt. [G.]

To plunge or immerse, for a moment or short time, in water or other liquid substance; to put into a fluid and withdraw.“The priest shall dip his finger int he blood” Leviticus 4:6“Let him dip his foot in oil” Deuteronomy 33:24
To take with a ladle or other vessel by immersing it in a fluid, as to dip water from a boiler; often with out, as to dip out water.
To engage; to take concern; used intransitively, but the passive participle is used.
To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Little used.]

All definitions and other forms of “dip”

To moisten; to wet. [Unusual.]
To baptize by immersion.

DIP, verb intransitive

To sink; to emerge in a liquid.
To enter; to pierce.
To engage; to take a concern; as, to dip into the funds.
To enter slightly; to look cursorily, or here and there; as, to dip into a volume of history.
To choose by chance; to thrust and take.
To incline downward; as, the magnetic needle dips. [See Dipping.]

DIP, noun

Inclination downward; a sloping; a direction below a horizontal line; depression; as the dip of the needle. The dip of a stratum, in geology, is its greatest inclination to the horizon, or that on a line perpendicular to its direction or course; called also the pitch.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.