Strong's #8610: taphas (pronounced taw-fas')
a primitive root; to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably:--catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ּׂ
tâphaś
1) to catch, handle, lay hold, take hold of, seize, wield
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to lay hold of, seize, arrest, catch
1a2) to grasp (in order to) wield, wield, use skilfully
1b) (Niphal) to be seized, be arrested, be caught, be taken, captured
1c) (Piel) to catch, grasp (with the hands)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 65 times:
Genesis 4:21: "was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ."
Genesis 39:12: " And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand,"
Numbers 5:13: "be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken"
Numbers 31:27: "the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between"
Deuteronomy 9:17: " And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,"
Deuteronomy 20:19: "a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy"
Deuteronomy 21:19: "Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city,"
Deuteronomy 22:28: "which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;"
Joshua 8:8: "And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire:"
Joshua 8:23: "And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua."
1 Samuel 15:8: " And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all"
1 Samuel 23:26: "made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men"
1 Kings 11:30: "And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve"
1 Kings 13:4: "from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth"
1 Kings 18:40: "And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one"
1 Kings 18:40: "one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook"
1 Kings 20:18: "Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war,"
1 Kings 20:18: "or whether they be come out for war, take them alive."
2 Kings 7:12: "they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city."
2 Kings 10:14: "And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit"
2 Kings 10:14: "And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit"
2 Kings 14:7: "of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called"
2 Kings 14:13: "And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son"
2 Kings 16:9: "went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin."
2 Kings 18:13: "all the fenced cities of Judah, and took"
2 Kings 25:6: " So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon"
2 Chronicles 25:23: "And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son"
Psalms 10:2: "in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined."
Psalms 71:11: "God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver"
Proverbs 30:9: "or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God"
Proverbs 30:28: "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces."
Isaiah 3:6: "When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be"
Isaiah 36:1: "all the defensed cities of Judah, and took"
Jeremiah 2:8: "not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors"
Jeremiah 26:8: "and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die."
Jeremiah 34:3: "escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand;"
Jeremiah 34:3: "escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand;"
Jeremiah 37:13: "of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying,"
Jeremiah 37:14: "not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes."
Jeremiah 38:23: "escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon:"
Jeremiah 40:10: "them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken."
Jeremiah 46:9: "come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend"
Jeremiah 46:9: "that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow."
Jeremiah 48:41: "Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that"
Jeremiah 49:16: "O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest"
Jeremiah 50:16: "Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest:"
Jeremiah 50:24: "aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD."
Jeremiah 50:46: "At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard"
Jeremiah 51:32: "And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened."
Jeremiah 51:41: "and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment"
