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To sweep

טֵאטֵאStrong’s H2894

tu

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

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Tu is the Hebrew word usually translated “sweep away it”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Isaiah 14:23 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Pilpel) to sweep, sweep away
How it's translated
  • and i will sweep away it 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    טֵאטֵא tu · to sweep

    (Pilpel) to sweep, sweep away

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    SWEEP, verb transitive

    preterit tense and participle passive swept.

    1. To brush or rub over with a brush, broom or besom, for removing loose dirt; to clean by brushing; as, to sweep a chimney or a floor.
    2. To carry with a long swinging or dragging motion; to carry with pomp.
    3. To drive or carry along or off by a long brushing stroke or force, or by flowing on the earth.
    4. To drive, destroy or carry off many at a stroke, or with celerity and violence; as, a pestilence sweeps off multitudes in a few days.
    All definitions and other forms of “sweep”
    1. To rub over.
    2. To strike with a long stroke.
    3. To draw or drag over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net, or with the bight of a rope, to hook an anchor.

    SWEEP, verb intransitive

    To pass with swiftness and violence, as something broad or brushing the surface of any thing; as a sweeping rain; a sweeping flood. A fowl that flies near the surface of land or water, is said to sweep along near the surface.

    1. To pass over or brush along with celerity and force; as, the wind sweeps along the plain.
    2. To pass with pomp; as, a person sweeps along with a trail.
    3. To move with a long reach; as a sweeping stroke.

    SWEEP, noun

    The act of sweeping.

    1. The compass of a stroke; as a long sweep
    2. The compass of any turning body or motion; as the sweep of a door.
    3. The compass of any thing flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away every thing within its sweep
    4. Violent and general destruction; as the sweep of an epidemic disease.
    5. Direction of any motion not rectilinear; as the sweep of a compass.
    6. The mold of a ship when she begins to compass in, at the rung heads; also, any part of a ship shaped by the segment of a circle; as a floor-sweep; a back-sweep, etc.
    7. Among refiners of metals, the almost-furnace.
    8. Among seamen, a large oar, used to assist the rudder in turning a ship in a calm, or to increase her velocity in a chase, etc.

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

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.