תַּעָב
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 22 occurrences, inflected in 17 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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תְתַעֵב
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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הִתְעִיבוּ
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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נִתְעָב
- Niphal
- Simple passive or reflexive of the Qal.
- 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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תִּעֲבוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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יַּתְעֵב
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- 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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הִתְעַבְתְּ
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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נִתְעַב
- Niphal
- Simple passive or reflexive of the Qal.
- 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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תְּתַעֲבִי
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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יְתָעֵב
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- 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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תִעֲבוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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אֲתַעֵבָה
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- 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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יְתָעֵבוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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תְּתַעֵב
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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יְתָעֵב
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- 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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תַעֵב
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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מֲתַעֲבִים
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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מְתָעֵב
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 20 verses across 9 of the 39 books. Most frequent in Psalms (6 verses); never once in the other 30.
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.