תָּקַע
tâqaʻ · taw-kah'
to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
- to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument)
- by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.)
- by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, [idiom] suretiship, thrust.
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the mark, the covenant sign › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to see and know
The mark, the covenant sign of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תָּקַע 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
69 occurrences · 69 OT · 0 NT · 57 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- blew6 · 12%
- blow5 · 10%
- and blew4 · 8%
- shall blow3 · 6%
- and he blew3 · 6%
- and blow3 · 6%
- when ye blow2 · 4%
- ye shall blow2 · 4%
- that blew2 · 4%
- and blowing2 · 4%
- and thrust2 · 4%
- and they blew2 · 4%
- had pitched1 · 2%
- pitched1 · 2%
- and cast1 · 2%
- and when they shall blow1 · 2%
- and if they blow1 · 2%
- they shall blow1 · 2%
- when the priests blew1 · 2%
- that he blew1 · 2%
- unto him, and smote1 · 2%
- when i blow1 · 2%
- i and all that are with me, then blow1 · 2%
- to blow1 · 2%
- and she fastened1 · 2%
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.