To smear
טָפַלStrong’s H2950taphal (ta-phal)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taphal is the Hebrew word usually translated “smearers of” and “have smeared”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
How it's translated
- smearers of 1
- and you have smeared 1
- they have smeared 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
טָפַל taphal · to smear
(Qal) to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “smear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SMEAR, verb transitive
- To overspread with any thing unctuous, viscous or adhesive; to besmear; to daub; as, to smear any thing with oil, butter, pitch, etc.
- To soil; to contaminate; to pollute; as smeared with infamy.
All definitions and other forms of “smear”
SMEAR, noun
A fat oily substance; ointment. [Little used.]
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.