TRV
טָרַף
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Hebrew Old Testament, this word appears as a verb across 25 occurrences, inflected in 12 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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טֹרֵף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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טָרֹף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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טְרָף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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טָרַף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִטָּרֵף
- Niphal
- Simple passive or reflexive of the Qal.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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טֹרַף
- Pual
- The passive of the intensive (Piel) stem.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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אֶטְרֹף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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יִטְרָף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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הַטְרִיפֵ
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִּטְרֹף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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טָרַף
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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טֹרְפֵי
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 22 verses across 12 of the 39 books. Most frequent in Psalms and Ezekiel (4 verses each); never once in the other 27.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.