Nail/claw
טְפַרStrong’s H2953tephar (te-phar)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tephar is the Aramaic word usually translated “nails his” and “claws its”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.”
Meaning
- Fingernail, nail, claw
How it's translated
- and nails his 1
- and claws its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Aramaic dictionary
טְפַר tephar · nail/claw
fingernail, nail, claw Aramaic of tsip.po.ren (צִפֹּ֫רֶן "fingernail" H6856)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.