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To soil

טָנַףStrong’s H2936

tanaph (ta-naph)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tanaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “dirty them”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?”
Song of Solomon 5:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Piel) to defile, soil
How it's translated
  • will i dirty them 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Song of Solomon 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    טָנַף tanaph · to soil

    (Piel) to defile, soil

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    SOIL, verb transitive

    1. To make dirty on the surface; to foul; to dirt; to stain; to defile; to tarnish; to sull; as, to soil a garment with dust.
    2. To cover or tinge with any thing extraneous; as, to soil the earth with blood.
    3. To dung; to manure.
    All definitions and other forms of “soil”

      SOIL, noun

      1. Dirt; and foul matter upon another substance; foulness; apot.
      2. Stain; tarnish.
      3. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance with furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particulary adapted to support and nourish them.
      4. Land; country.
      5. Dung; compost.

      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.