Strong's #8427: tavah (pronounced taw-vaw')

a primitive root; to mark out, i.e. (primitive) scratch or (definite) imprint:--scrabble, set (a mark).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tâvâh

1) to scrabble, limit, mark, make or set a mark

1a) (Piel) to mark

1b) (Hiphil) to set a mark

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

1 Samuel 21:13: "before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle"
Ezekiel 9:4: "of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men"