English Bible words starting with T
706 meanings beginning with T, in alphabetical order. This is page 7 of 8. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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treat1 word
treat shamefully1 word
treat unjustly1 word
treat with contempt1 word
treaty1 word
tree6 words
- etsעֵץa tree: a living, growing woody plant, or trees taken together as a kind of vegetation
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- wood: what a tree yields once it is cut, whether as building timber, as fuel, or as the material a thing is made of
- the wooden pole, stake, or tree on which the body of a condemned person is hung up in public
- xulonξύλονwood: cut timber, and by extension almost anything made of wood, from a living tree to the cross
- dendronδένδρονa tree: a large woody plant with a trunk, branches, and often fruit
- ilanאִילָןtreenot studied yet
- eshelאֵשֶׁלa tamarisk: the hardy, deep-rooted evergreen of the dry south, and in every biblical scene one particular tree that marks a place
- etsעֵץa tree: a living, growing woody plant, or trees taken together as a kind of vegetation
treetop1 word
tremble12 words
- ḥulחוּלto writhe: to twist and convulse with pain, terror, or grief, whether in the body, the heart, or the shaking ground
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- to bring forth: to give birth, or to be born, the labor-writhing carried through to the child it produces
- to dance: to whirl in a circling festal dance
- to wait, to wait longingly or in hope for someone
- ragazרָגַזto shake: to be thrown into violent, involuntary motion, whether the earth quaking, a person trembling, or an inward shuddering of dread, grief, or excitement
- ḥaradחָרַדto tremble with sudden fear: the involuntary shudder of a startled or terrified person, and (in causative form) to make someone tremble like that
- ra'ashרָעַשׁto shake or quake: to move with a violent, shuddering motion, the way the ground heaves in an earthquake
- paḥadפָּחַדto tremble with dread: to be seized by sudden, body-shaking fear
- ḥulחוּלto writhe: to twist and convulse with pain, terror, or grief, whether in the body, the heart, or the shaking ground
trembling11 words
- tromosτρόμοςtremblingnot studied yet
- ra'ashרַעַשׁa violent shaking, and the roar or rattling such shaking makes: an earthquake, a rumbling commotion, or a body's trembling
- ḥaradahחֲרָדָהtrembling brought on by fear: the shudder of terror that grips a body, a crowd, or the heart, and by extension the anxious trouble taken on another's behalf
- entromosἔντρομοςtremblingnot studied yet
- za'avahזַעֲוָהshuddering horror: the sickened jolt that runs through anyone who looks, and the wrecked people who set it off
trench2 words
- magalמַעְגָּלa circular army camp: the defensive ring drawn around encamped troops
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- a well-worn track, and so the settled course a person's life takes
- te'alahתְּעָלָהa water channel made by cutting or digging: a conduit, a trench, or a watercourse
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- healing: a wound closing over and mending
- magalמַעְגָּלa circular army camp: the defensive ring drawn around encamped troops
trespass4 words
- peshahפֶּשַׁעrebellion: the deliberate breaking of a bond you were obligated to keep
- paraptōmaπαράπτωμαa wrongdoing: a concrete act in which someone falls away from what is right and breaks faith with God or neighbor
- ma'alמַעַלa treacherous breach of faith: a betrayal of a bond one was trusted to keep, toward God or toward another person
- ashmahאַשְׁמָהguilt: the culpability a person or community incurs by doing wrong, together with the liability to punishment or repayment it brings
trespass offering1 word
trespasses1 word
- opheilēmaὀφείλημαa debt: a sum or service one is bound to pay back
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- sin pictured as a debt owed to God
- opheilēmaὀφείλημαa debt: a sum or service one is bound to pay back
trial2 words
- peirasmosπειρασμόςa testing or trial: pressure that reveals whether a person will stay faithful, whether as hardship that proves faith or as enticement that erodes it
- massahמַסָּהa testing, a trial: an ordeal that forces out into the open what someone or something is really made of
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- despair: hope draining away until a person has no courage left
tribe4 words
- phulēφυλήa tribe: a body of people who share a common ancestor and form one division within a larger nation
- mattehמַטֶּהa tribe: one of the major family divisions of Israel descended from a son of Jacob.
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- a staff or rod: a length of wood carried in the hand, used as a walking stick, a tool, a weapon, or a sign of authority.
- shevetשֵׁבֶטa tribe: one of the family branches that together make up the people of Israel
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- a rod: a wooden stick used to strike, to guide a flock, or to mark out a ruler's authority
- shevatשְׁבַטtribenot studied yet
tribe of levi1 word
- leviלֵוִיLevi: a man's name, borne by Jacob's third son by Leah, the ancestor from whom Israel's sanctuary tribe is reckoned
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- Levi: the tribe descended from Jacob's third son, Israel's landless tribe set apart to care for the sanctuary
- leviלֵוִיLevi: a man's name, borne by Jacob's third son by Leah, the ancestor from whom Israel's sanctuary tribe is reckoned
tribes1 word
tribulation2 words
- thlipsisθλῖψιςaffliction: the crushing pressure of trouble, distress, or suffering bearing down on a person
- tsarahצָרָהdistress: the experience of being in a tight, threatening place, whether outward danger or inner anguish
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- a rival wife: a second wife who is felt as an adversary, the one who brings grief to the first
tribunal1 word
tribune1 word
tribute11 words
- minḥahמִנְחָהtribute: the payment a weaker nation or subject hands over to a ruler it is forced to serve.
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- a gift presented to someone of higher standing to win favor, show respect, or smooth a relationship.
- an offering presented to God; most often the grain offering of flour, oil, and incense given alongside the animal sacrifices.
- telosτέλοςthe point a thing arrives at: where it stops, what it comes to, or the goal it was aiming for
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- a tax or customs duty: a payment owed to a governing authority
- massaמַשָּׂאa burden: a load that is lifted and carried, whether goods on an animal's back or a weight laid on a person.
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- an oracle: a weighty pronouncement from God delivered through a prophet, most often a sentence of doom against a nation.
- the carrying of song: a term for the performance of music in worship, used of the Levite who directed it.
- phorosφόροςtribute: the tax owed to a ruling power by the people under it, charged on persons and land rather than on goods in transit
- masמַסforced labor: the compulsory, unpaid work a ruling power conscripts from a subject population, and the work gangs that carry it out.
- minḥahמִנְחָהtribute: the payment a weaker nation or subject hands over to a ruler it is forced to serve.
trick3 words
trickery2 words
trickle1 word
trigon1 word
trim1 word
trip up1 word
triumph3 words
triumphed gloriously1 word
triumphing1 word
Troas1 word
trodden underfoot1 word
Trogyllium1 word
troop1 word
troop together1 word
- gadadגָּדַדto slash one's own skin on purpose as a religious act: in grief for someone who has died, or to force a god to answer
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- to mass together in a body, the way a band of armed men does: to close in on someone, or to crowd to a place
- gadadגָּדַדto slash one's own skin on purpose as a religious act: in grief for someone who has died, or to force a god to answer
troops4 words
- amעַםa people: a body of persons bound together as one community by shared descent, land, and loyalty
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- kinsman, blood relative: the members of one's own family or clan
- strateumaστράτευμαa body of armed men acting under one commander: an army in the field, or any smaller force of soldiers sent out at his order.
- speiraσπεῖραa cohort: a unit of the Roman army, several hundred soldiers serving under one commander
- aggaphאֲגַףa leader's own troops: the fighting companies massed with a named king or commander
- amעַםa people: a body of persons bound together as one community by shared descent, land, and loyalty
Trophimus1 word
trouble23 words
- raרַעcalamity: disaster, ruin, or affliction that falls on a person or nation, the trouble that is the opposite of well-being
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- bad: failing the standard of what it should be, whether defective, harmful, or unpleasant, with no question of sin
- morally evil: conduct, intent, or persons that are wrong in the sight of God, the opposite of what is good
- thlipsisθλῖψιςaffliction: the crushing pressure of trouble, distress, or suffering bearing down on a person
- kakiaκακίαtrouble: the hardship or misfortune that a day brings with it.
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- badness inside a person: above all ill will toward others, and more broadly a corrupt character and the wrongs it produces.
- tarassōταράσσωto agitate: to stir something into commotion, whether water, a person's heart, or a crowd
- thlibōθλίβωto afflict: to bear down on someone with hardship, trouble, or persecution, like a weight pressing from outside
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- to press physically: to squeeze or crowd something so that it is pinched tight
- raרַעcalamity: disaster, ruin, or affliction that falls on a person or nation, the trouble that is the opposite of well-being
troubled4 words
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
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- to hurry, act in haste, or do something rashly
- thorubeōθορυβέωto make, or be caught up in, a noisy commotion: an uproar, loud wailing, or inner turmoil
- ḥamarחָמַרto foam up: to churn hard enough to froth and boil over
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- to coat something with tar: to seal it with bitumen so water cannot get in
- adēmoneōἀδημονέωto be in acute, disorienting distress: anguished and thrown off one's inner balance, far beyond ordinary worry
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
troublemaker1 word
trough3 words
true2 words
truly11 words
- alētheiaἀλήθειαtruth: what really is the case, told and lived reliably, rather than concealed, faked, or false
- amēnἀμήνtruly: a word Jesus speaks before his own statements to mark them as certain and carrying his own authority
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- so be it: a word of response that seals a prayer, praise, or blessing with the agreement of all who hear it
- the Amen: a title for Christ in Revelation, marking him as the one in whom God's complete reliability is made personal
- naiναίyes: the plain word of agreement, confirming that what has just been said or asked is so
- alēthōsἀληθῶςtruly, really: marking that something genuinely matches the truth or the facts
- amenאָמֵןamen: a one-word reply that takes another person's words and makes them binding on oneself
trumpet6 words
- salpigxσάλπιγξtrumpet: a signaling horn blown to give one loud, unmistakable order, and the blast it makes
- salpizōσαλπίζωto sound a trumpet: to blow the signal blast that summons, warns, or announces that something is about to happen.
- shopharשֹׁפָרthe ram's-horn trumpet: a curved animal horn sounded to give a loud, carrying signal
- ḥatsotserahחֲצֹצְרָהa trumpet: the long, straight metal trumpet blown by the priests, not a ram's horn.
- yovelיוֹבֵלa ram, or the ram's-horn trumpet made from its horn and used to sound a long, carrying blast
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- the Jubilee: the fiftieth year, proclaimed by the ram's-horn blast, in which land returned to its families and slaves went free
trumpet call1 word
trumpeter1 word
trust15 words
- pisteuōπιστεύωto entrust something to someone, or (when the subject is the receiver) to be put in charge of it as a trust
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- to believe: to take a message as true and lean one's whole self on the person it is about, above all on God and on Jesus
- pistisπίστιςtrust placed in God or in Christ: relying on someone proven worthy of reliance
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- faithfulness: being reliable and keeping faith, including God's own covenant constancy
- the faith: the body of Christian teaching that is believed and handed on
- a pledge or proof: a guarantee given that secures confidence
- peithōπείθωto rest your weight on someone or something: to trust, rely on, be confident
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- to work on someone until they come around: to persuade, convince, win over
- to have been brought to certainty: to be convinced, to be sure
- to let yourself be moved by another: to comply, go along with, obey
- elpizōἐλπίζωto look ahead to something good with expectation, ranging from ordinary anticipation to settled trust in God
- bataḥבָּטַחto put your confidence in someone or something, leaning on it for safety; and so to feel secure
- pisteuōπιστεύωto entrust something to someone, or (when the subject is the receiver) to be put in charge of it as a trust
trustee1 word
trustworthy3 words
- pistosπιστόςfaithful, dependable: able to be relied on to keep faith and do what is required
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- believing: one who has put faith in God, a believer
- emetאֱמֶתthat which holds firm and can be relied on: faithfulness in a person and truth in a word, as one undivided idea
- emunאֵמֻןdependable: proven trustworthy, used both of the quality itself and of the people who have it
- pistosπιστόςfaithful, dependable: able to be relied on to keep faith and do what is required
trusty1 word
truth5 words
- alētheiaἀλήθειαtruth: what really is the case, told and lived reliably, rather than concealed, faked, or false
- emetאֱמֶתthat which holds firm and can be relied on: faithfulness in a person and truth in a word, as one undivided idea
- emunahאֱמוּנָהfirmness that you can lean on: steadiness, reliability, faithfulness
- asphaleiaἀσφάλειαsecurity: the state of being safe and impossible to overthrow, whether shut up so firmly nothing can break in or simply out of harm's reach
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- certainty: the firm, well-grounded reliability of a claim or teaching, such that a person can safely rest their confidence on it
- qeshotקְשֹׁטtruthnot studied yet
truthful1 word
try6 words
- zēteōζητέωto seek: to go after something with effort, whether searching for it, striving to get it, or insisting on having it.
- peirazōπειράζωto try: to make an attempt at something, to endeavor to do it
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- to test: to put a person, claim, or one's own faith to the proof to find out what it really is
- dokimazōδοκιμάζωto put something to the test to find out whether it is genuine, and so to prove and approve it
- nasahנָסָהto put to the test: to set up a trial that brings out what a person, a thing, or even God will actually do
- baḥanבָּחַןto examine something closely to find out whether it is genuine, the way an assayer tests metal
Tryphaena1 word
Tryphosa1 word
Tubal1 word
tubal-cain1 word
tumbleweed1 word
- galgalגַּלְגַּלa wheel, named for its rolling: the round part that turns under a chariot or wagon, or over the mouth of a well
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- something whirling before the wind: dry stuff tumbling along the ground, and the whirling storm that drives it
- galgalגַּלְגַּלa wheel, named for its rolling: the round part that turns under a chariot or wagon, or over the mouth of a well
tumor1 word
tumult5 words
- hamonהָמוֹןnoise, roar, or tumult: the overwhelming sound produced by a surging mass
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- a multitude, host, or crowd: a large, surging mass of people or troops
- abundance, wealth, or a great supply of material things
- thorubosθόρυβοςan uproar: the loud, disorderly noise of a crowd that has lost its order
- sha'onשָׁאוֹןa loud roaring din: the deep, rushing noise of surf, of a massed crowd or army, or of revelry
- mehumahמְהוּמָהthe collapse of order into chaos: panic that shatters an army, unrest that makes a country unsafe, turmoil that unsettles a life
- hamullahהֲמֻלָּהtumultnot studied yet
- hamonהָמוֹןnoise, roar, or tumult: the overwhelming sound produced by a surging mass
tunic2 words
turban4 words
- mitsnephetמִצְנֶפֶתa turban: cloth wound around the head as the badge of the highest office, worn by Israel's high priest and, in one prophecy, by her ruler.
- pe'erפְּאֵרa fine headdress: the decorative head covering worn by a serving priest, a bridegroom, or a woman in her finery, and kept on or laid aside as a public sign of joy or grief.
- tsaniphצָנִיףturbannot studied yet
- tavulטְבוּלturbannot studied yet
turmoil2 words
turn15 words
- shuvשׁוּבto turn back: to reverse a movement and retrace the way already taken, whether going home, sending something back, or turning toward or away from God
- epistrephōἐπιστρέφωto turn: to change direction so as to face or move toward something, whether a body turning around, a person going back to a place, or a heart turning to God
- savavסָבַבto turn: change the direction one is facing or moving, or send something a roundabout way
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- to go around: move in a circuit or circle around something, or run around a thing as a rim does
- to surround: close in around someone or something on every side
- to turn something over: hand it on, transfer it, or change it into something else
- panahפָּנָהto turn so as to face a direction, person, or thing, with all that the turn implies: to look toward, attend to, or move away from
- haphakhהָפַךְto turn something over, around, or back, so a new side or heading faces out
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- to overthrow and destroy, tearing a place down so completely that it is left upended in ruin
- to change one thing into its opposite, turning a state, condition, or substance into something else
- to pervert or twist, turning what is straight and right into something crooked
turn around1 word
turn aside3 words
- surסוּרto turn aside or depart: move away from a path, a person, or a course of life
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- to remove or take away: cause something or someone to leave
- natahנָטָהto turn aside or turn away: to change direction so as to leave the straight path, toward something or away from it
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- to stretch out or spread something: to extend a hand, arm, or fabric into open space
- to bend justice or pervert a legal case: to push a judgment off its honest course against the weak
- to incline the ear or heart: to bend one's attention toward someone, or to bend another's heart a certain way
- satahשָׂטָהto turn asidenot studied yet
- surסוּרto turn aside or depart: move away from a path, a person, or a course of life
turn away4 words
- apostrephōἀποστρέφωto turn away or turn back: to send a person or thing away from what it was facing, and so to remove it, put it back, or refuse it
- strephōστρέφωto turn: to change the direction something faces, moves, or points
- sugסוּגto turn back: to draw away from where one stood, whether retreating in defeat or falling away from someone once followed
- ḥamaqחָמַקto turn awaynot studied yet
turn back4 words
- hupostrephōὑποστρέφωto return: to go back to a place or person you came from
- sugסוּגto turn back: to draw away from where one stood, whether retreating in defeat or falling away from someone once followed
- nasagנָסַגto push something back out of the place where it belongs; most often, to shift a boundary marker and quietly take over a neighbor's land.
- sugשׂוּגto turn backnot studied yet
turn from1 word
turn into foolishness1 word
turn right1 word
turn to ashes1 word
turned1 word
turning2 words
turning away2 words
- meshuvahמְשׁוּבָהa turning away from God: the disloyalty of a people who walk off from the one they belong to.
- sarahסָרָהrevolt against God: a turning away from him, and the talk that pushes others into it
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- a serious wrong charged in court: the damaging accusation a hostile witness brings against someone
- a letting up: the stopping of something that has been going on without pause
turning back1 word
turret1 word
- tirahטִירָהbuilt stonework that runs around a structure: a course of masonry, or a turret raised on top of a wall.
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- an encampment: the cluster of tents and animal pens a clan lives in, and by extension the area a clan settles in.
- tirahטִירָהbuilt stonework that runs around a structure: a course of masonry, or a turret raised on top of a wall.
turrets1 word
turtle1 word
turtledove1 word
twelfth1 word
twelve1 word
twelve tribes1 word
twenty3 words
twice1 word
twig1 word
- qetsephקֶצֶףa snapped-off bit of wood: a twig or chip drifting on the surface of water
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- wrath that breaks out: fierce anger, nearly always God's, that bursts forth and lands on people because of a particular wrong
- qetsephקֶצֶףa snapped-off bit of wood: a twig or chip drifting on the surface of water
twilight2 words
twin2 words
twined1 word
twinkling1 word
twist8 words
- ḥulחוּלto writhe: to twist and convulse with pain, terror, or grief, whether in the body, the heart, or the shaking ground
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- to bring forth: to give birth, or to be born, the labor-writhing carried through to the child it produces
- to dance: to whirl in a circling festal dance
- to wait, to wait longingly or in hope for someone
- shazarשָׁזַרtwined: of thread, twisted together from several strands into one strong, fine thread
- salaphסָלַףto twist something so far that it goes over: to wrench honest words until a just case comes out crooked, or to upend people and leave them in ruin
- aqashעָקַשׁto twistnot studied yet
- patalפָּתַלto twist: to be wound out of straightness, whether two rivals locked together or a person, a word, or a response bent away from the straight
- ḥulחוּלto writhe: to twist and convulse with pain, terror, or grief, whether in the body, the heart, or the shaking ground
twisted6 words
- diastrephōδιαστρέφωto twist something out of true: to bend a straight path, a message, or a person away from where it ought to run
- shazarשָׁזַרtwined: of thread, twisted together from several strands into one strong, fine thread
- iqqeshעִקֵּשׁcrooked: bent away from what is straight and right, in a person's heart, conduct, or speech.
- patalפָּתַלto twist: to be wound out of straightness, whether two rivals locked together or a person, a word, or a response bent away from the straight
- migbalahמִגְבָּלֹתtwistednot studied yet
twists1 word
two3 words
two hundred1 word
two thousand1 word
two years1 word
two years old1 word
two-drachma1 word
two-edged1 word