Spit
תֹּ֫פֶתStrong’s H8611tophet (to-phet)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tophet is the Hebrew word usually translated “spitting”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.”
Meaning
- Act of spitting, spit
How it's translated
- and a spitting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תֹּ֫פֶת tophet · spit
act of spitting, spit
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPIT, noun
[G.]
- An iron prong or bar pointed, on which meat is roasted.
- Such depth of earth as is pierced by the spade at once. [D. spit a spade.]
- A small point of land running into the sea, or a long narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as a spit of sand.
All definitions and other forms of “spit”
SPIT, verb transitive
[from the noun.]
- To thrust a spit through; to put upon a spit; as, to spit a loin of veal.
- To thrust through; to pierce.
SPIT, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive spit Spat is obsolete. [G. The sense is to throw or drive.]
- To eject from the mouth; to thrust out, as saliva or other matter from the mouth.
- To eject or throw out with violence.
SPIT, verb intransitive
To throw out saliva from the mouth. It is a dirty trick to spit on the floor or carpet.
SPIT, noun
What is ejected from the mouth; saliva.
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.