Peak
תּוֹעָפָהStrong’s H8443toaphah (to-a-phah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Toaphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like horns of”, “heaps” and “peaks of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.”
Meaning
- Eminence, lofty horns, summiteminence (of towering horns, peaks, silver)
How it's translated
- like horns of 2
- heaps 1
- and peaks of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 24:8God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
- Job 22:25Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
- Psalms 95:4In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹעָפָה toaphah · peak
1) eminence, lofty horns, summit 1a) eminence (of towering horns, peaks, silver)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “peak” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PEAK, noun
[Eng. pike, beak.]
- The top of a hill or mountain, ending in a point; as the peak of Teneriffe.
- A point; the end of any thing that terminates in a point.
- The upper corner of a sail which is extended by a gaff or yard; also, the extremity of the yard or gaff.
All definitions and other forms of “peak”
PEAK, verb intransitive
To look sickly or thin. [Not used.]
- To make a mean figure; to sneak. [Not used.]
PEAK, verb transitive
To raise a gaff or yard more obliquely to the mast.
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.