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Greek/Hebrew Definitions



Strong's #8609: taphar (pronounced taw-far')

a primitive root; to sew:--(women that) sew (together).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tâphar

1) to sew together

1a) (Qal) to sew, sew together

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to sew

1b2) sewing (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Genesis 3:7: "that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."
Job 16:15: " I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust."
Ecclesiastes 3:7: "A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
Ezekiel 13:18: "the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes,"









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