Child
טַףStrong’s H2945taph
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taph is the Hebrew word usually translated “little one their”, “little one” and “little one your”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.”
Meaning
- Children, little children, little ones
How it's translated
- little one their 6
- and the little one 6
- the little one 5
- little one your 5
- little one our 3
- for little one your 3
- and little one your 3
- and little one 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 10
- Genesis 8
- Deuteronomy 7
- Exodus 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Joshua 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 43:8And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
- Genesis 45:19Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
- Genesis 46:5And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
- Genesis 47:12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
- Genesis 47:24And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
- Genesis 50:8And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
טַף taph · child
children, little children, little ones
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “child” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHILD, noun
- A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of parents; applied to the human race, and chiefly to a person when young.“Hagar cast the child under one of the shrubs” Genesis 21:15“Jephthas daughter was his only child” Judges 11:34“The child shall behave himself proudly” Isaiah 3:5
- One weak in knowledge, experience, judgment or attainments; as, he is a mere child“Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child” Jeremiah 1:6
- One young in grace. 1
- One who is born again, spiritually renewed and adopted; as a child of God.
All definitions and other forms of “child”
- One who is the product of another; or whose principles and morals are the product of another.“Thou child of the devil” Acts 13:10
- In the plural, the descendants of a man however remote; as the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
- The inhabitants of a country; as the children of Seir.
CHILD, verb intransitive
To bring children.
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.