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:
Jeremiah 52:9: " Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah"
Ezekiel 12:13: "My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land"
Ezekiel 14:5: "That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all"
Ezekiel 17:20: "And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead"
Ezekiel 19:4: "The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto"
Ezekiel 19:8: "from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit."
Ezekiel 21:11: "And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it"
Ezekiel 21:23: "but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken."
Ezekiel 21:24: "do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand."
Ezekiel 27:29: "And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down"
Ezekiel 29:7: " When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon"
Ezekiel 30:21: "to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword."
Ezekiel 38:4: "company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:"
Amos 2:15: "Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver"
Habakkuk 2:19: "shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath"
