Toss
צְנֵפָהStrong’s H6802tsenephah (tse-ne-phah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsenephah is the Hebrew word usually translated “winding”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.”
Meaning
- Winding, thing wrapped, ball
How it's translated
- a winding 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
צְנֵפָה tsenephah · toss
winding, thing wrapped, ball
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “toss” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOSS, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive tossed or tost.
- To throw with the hand; particularly, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
- To throw with violence.
- To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head; or to toss up the head.
- To cause to rise and fall; as, to be tossed on the waves.“We, being exceedingly tossed with a tempest--” Acts 27:18
All definitions and other forms of “toss”
- To move one way and the other. Proverbs 21:6
- To agitate; to make restless.
- To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
TOSS, verb intransitive
To fling; to roll and tumble; to writhe; to be in violent commotion.
- To be tossed.
TOSS, noun
A throwing upward or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as the toss of a ball.
- A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
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.