To sew
תָּפַרStrong’s H8609taphar (ta-phar)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taphar is the Hebrew word usually translated “sew”, “sewed together” and “have sewed”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
Meaning
- To sew together(Qal) to sew, sew together · (Piel)
How it's translated
- to sew 2
- and they sewed together 1
- i have sewed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- Ezekiel 13:18And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
Hebrew dictionary
תָּפַר taphar · to sew
1) to sew together 1a) (Qal) to sew, sew together 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to sew 1b2) sewing (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sew” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEW, verb transitive
pronounced so, and better written soe. To unite or fasten together with a needle and thread.
- “They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons” Genesis 3:7“Thou sewest up my iniquity” Job 14:17
All definitions and other forms of “sew”
SEW, verb intransitive
To practice sewing; to join things with stitches.
SEW, verb transitive
[Latin sicco, to dry.]
To drain a pond for taking the fish. Obs.
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.