תֹּעוּ
Tôʻûw · to'-oo
Tou or Toi, a Syrian king
Lexicon
Derivation: or תֹּעִי; from H8582 (תָּעָה); error
Tou or Toi, a Syrian king
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Toi, Tou.
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the mark, the covenant sign › to see and know › to fasten and establish
The mark, the covenant sign that works to see and know that works to fasten and establish.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תֹּעוּ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- when toi1 · 20%
- then toi1 · 20%
- with toi1 · 20%
- now when tou1 · 20%
- with tou1 · 20%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.