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To teach

תִּרְגַּלStrong’s H8637

tirgal (tir-gal)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tirgal is the Hebrew word usually translated “taught to walk”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.”
Hosea 11:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. To go on foot, spy out, cause to walk(Tiphel) to teach to walk
How it's translated
  • i taught to walk 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hosea 1

1 book in all.

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Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    תִּרְגַּל tirgal · to teach

    1) to go on foot, spy out, cause to walk 1a) (Tiphel) to teach to walk

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “teach” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    TEACH, verb transitive

    preterit tense and participle passive taught. [Latin doceo; dico, dicto, and both these and the Gr. to show, may be of one family; all implying sending, passing, communicating, or rather leading, drawing.

    1. To instruct; to inform; to communicate to another the knowledge of that of which he was before ignorant.“He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths” Isaiah 2:3“Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples” Luke 11:1
    2. To deliver any doctrine, art, principles or words for instruction.“In vain they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” Matthew 15:9
    3. To tell; to give intelligence.
    4. To instruct, or to practice the business of an instructor; to use or follow the employment of a preceptor; as, a man teaches school for a livelihood.
    All definitions and other forms of “teach”
    1. To show; to exhibit so as to impress on the mind.
    2. To accustom; to make familiar.“They have taught their tongue to speak lies” Jeremiah 9:5
    3. To inform or admonish; to give previous notice to.“For he taught his disciples, and said--” Mark 9:31
    4. To suggest to the mind.“For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that same hour what ye ought to say” Luke 12:12
    5. To signify or give notice.“He teacheth with his fingers” Proverbs 6:13
    6. To counsel and direct. Habakkuk 2:19

    TEACH, verb intransitive

    To practice giving instruction; to perform the business of a preceptor.

    1. “The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire” Micah 3:11

    TEACH, noun

    In sugar works, the last boiler.

      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.