Tender care
טִפֻּחִיםStrong’s H2949tippuch (tip-puch)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tippuch is the Hebrew word usually translated “health”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?”
Meaning
- Tender care, dandling
How it's translated
- health 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
טִפֻּחִים tippuch · tender care
tender care, dandling
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “health” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEALTH, noun
helth. [from heal.] That state of an animal or living body, in which the parts are sound, well organized and disposed, and in which they all perform freely their natural functions. In this state the animal feels no pain. This word is applied also to plants.
- Sound state of the mind; natural vigor of faculties.
- Sound state of the mind, in a moral sense; purity; goodness.
- Salvation or divine favor, or grace which cheers God's people., Psalms 43:5
- Wish of health and happiness; used in drinking.
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.