Hebrew

To mince

טָפַףStrong’s H2952

taphaph (ta-phaph)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Taphaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “mincing along”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:”

Isaiah 3:16 KJV

Meaning

(Qal) to skip, trip, take quick little steps

How it's translated

and mincing along 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

טָפַף taphaph · to mince

(Qal) to skip, trip, take quick little steps

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

MINCE, verb transitive

mins. [Latin minuo, to diminish; Latin minor, smaller; minuo, to diminish; Gr. small, slender; to diminish; Latin minutus, minute.

To cut or chop into very small pieces; as, to mince meat.
To diminish in speaking; to retrench, cut off or omit a part for the purpose of suppressing the truth; to extenuate in representation.
To speak with affected softness; to clip words; not to utter the full sound.
To walk with short or diminished steps.

All definitions and other forms of “mince”

MINCE, verb intransitive

To walk with short steps; to walk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

“walking and mincing as they go” Isaiah 3:16
To speak softly, or with affected nicety.

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.