תָּפֵלtâphêl
תָּפֵל: tasteless, unseasoned (Job 6:6; Lamentations 2:14)
Pronunciation: taw-fale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8602
Meanings
תָּפֵל: whitewash (Ezekiel 13:10; Ezekiel 13:11; Ezekiel 13:14; Ezekiel 13:15; Ezekiel 22:28)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Job 6:6 Don’t people complain about unsalted food? Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?
- Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets have said so many foolish things, false to the core. They did not save you from exile by pointing out your sins. Instead, they painted false pictures, filling you with false hope.
- Ezekiel 13:10 “This will happen because these evil prophets deceive my people by saying, ‘All is peaceful’ when there is no peace at all! It’s as if the people have built a flimsy wall, and these prophets are trying to reinforce it by covering it with whitewash!
- Ezekiel 13:11 Tell these whitewashers that their wall will soon fall down. A heavy rainstorm will undermine it; great hailstones and mighty winds will knock it down.
- Ezekiel 13:14 I will break down your wall right to its foundation, and when it falls, it will crush you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 13:15 At last my anger against the wall and those who covered it with whitewash will be satisfied. Then I will say to you: ‘The wall and those who whitewashed it are both gone.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).