Hebrew words starting with tet
85 words in the Bible begin with tet (ט), listed most frequent first. Every word links to its meaning, its attested forms, and the verses it appears in.
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- tovטוֹבgood: fittingly answering to what a thing, a person, or a relationship is meant to be, so that it is sound, pleasing, right, or beneficial
- tameטָמֵאto be or become ceremonially or morally unclean, or to make something or someone unclean
- tahorטָהוֹרclean: free of whatever would defile it, so that it may be used, approached, or trusted
- taherטָהֵרto be clean or pure, to become clean, or to make something clean; used of ritual fitness, of literal cleanness, and of being freed from sin.
- tameטָמֵאritually unclean: in a condition that bars a person, animal, or object from the sphere of worship until it is set right
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- morally defiled: stained by grave sin, so that a person, a people, or the land itself is fouled before God
- teremטֶרֶםbeforenot studied yet
- tabba'atטַבַּעַתa signet ring: the personal ring worn on the hand, used to stamp a seal and so to act with the owner's authority.
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- a fixed metal ring on a piece of furniture: a holder through which carrying-poles pass, or a fitting that joins parts together.
- tovטוֹבto be good: to be sound, pleasing, or going well, and (in its causative form) to do good or do well
- taphטַףchildren, little ones: the young, dependent members of a household or nation, taken as a group rather than as one child
- tumahטֻמְאָהuncleanness: a state of impurity, ritual or moral, that keeps a person or object away from what is holy and must be cleansed.
- tabbaḥטַבָּחa slaughterer: one whose work is killing, whether butchering animals for the table or putting prisoners to death for the king
- tuvטוּבa store of good things: actual goods and produce, prosperity and well-being, fine quality, or, above all, God's own generous goodness
- talטַלdew: the fine moisture that settles on the ground overnight when no rain falls, a small but vital summer water source
- tamanטָמַןto hide something by covering it over, usually by burying it in the ground
- turטוּרa row: a line of matching things set side by side in a fixed, repeating order
- taraphטָרַףto tear apart and kill, the way a lion or wolf seizes prey and rips it to pieces
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- to provide someone with food, giving them the portion they need to eat
- terephטֶרֶףprey: the flesh a predator tears and eats, and by extension what is seized as plunder or simply provided as food
- toviyyahטוֹבִיָּהוּTobiahnot studied yet
- tavalטָבַלto dip: to put something into a liquid, whether to wet just its surface or to plunge it fully under
- tulטוּלto hurl or fling with force: to send something or someone flying, not merely to toss it or set it down.
- titטִיטmud: wet earth soft enough to sink into or to knead, from the sludge at the bottom of a pit to the clay a potter treads
- ta'amטַעַםthe flavor of a food or drink: what it tastes like on the tongue.
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- good sense: the sound judgment a person shows in sizing up a situation and acting fittingly.
- an official order: the binding decision a king or governing authority hands down.
- tevaḥטֶבַחslaughter: the butchering of an animal, and the cutting down of people pictured as exactly that
- tu'aḥטוּחַto coat a surface by spreading something over it: to plaster, daub, or overlay, most often mortar on a wall
- tavaḥטָבַחto butcher: to kill an animal and cut it up for eating, and so to cut people down like meat animals
- tohorahטׇהֳרָהpurification: the process that restores someone to the clean standing worship requires, and the cleanness that process secures
- ta'amטָעַםto taste: to take a little food or drink into the mouth and tell what it is like, and so to learn something firsthand
- tavaטָבַעto sink: to go down into mire, water, or earth and be held fast, or to be driven and set firmly into a surface or place
- terephahטְרֵפָהan animal killed and ripped open by a wild beast, and so the mangled remains it leaves behind
- taḥanטָחַןto grind: to work grain or some other hard thing between stones until it is reduced to flour or dust
- teḥorטְחֹרa painful swelling of the lower body, a tumor of the sort English Bibles have long called an emerod
- talaטָלָאspotted or patched: covered with patches of a second color, or with pieces of material set into the surface
- tirahטִירָהan encampment: the cluster of tents and animal pens a clan lives in, and by extension the area a clan settles in.
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- built stonework that runs around a structure: a course of masonry, or a turret raised on top of a wall.
- toharטֹהַרpurity: being in the clear before God, named as a condition a person is in, together with the counted days that condition covers
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- brightness: the clear, shining look of something with nothing clouding it
- talmonטַלְמוֹןTalmonnot studied yet
- tophaḥטֹפַחhandbreadthnot studied yet
- tovטוֹבTobnot studied yet
- teneטֶנֶאbasketnot studied yet
- tephaḥטֶפַחhandbreadthnot studied yet
- tivḥahטִבְחָהslaughterednot studied yet
- tophaphahטוֹטָפוֹתfrontlets: a band or ornament worn on the front of the head, used in Scripture as a picture of keeping something always before you
- taphalטָפַלto smearnot studied yet
- tave'elטָבְאֵלTabeelnot studied yet
- tabburטַבּוּרhighestnot studied yet
- tabba'otטַבָּעוֹתTabbaothnot studied yet
- tov adoniyyahטוֹב אֲדֹנִיָּהTobadonijahnot studied yet
- tavahטָוָהto spinnot studied yet
- tuḥahטֻחוֹתsomething covered over and hidden from view, almost certainly a person's inmost being in one of its two biblical uses; what it names in the other use is genuinely unknown
- talehטָלֶהlambnot studied yet
- telemטֶלֶםTelemnot studied yet
- taphaḥטָפַחto extendnot studied yet
- tiphsarטִפְסָרofficialnot studied yet
- taradטָרַדto pursuenot studied yet
- toraḥטֹרַחburdennot studied yet
- tariטָרִיfreshnot studied yet
- taraphטָרָףfresh-pluckednot studied yet
- tavulטְבוּלturbannot studied yet
- tevaḥטֶבַחTebahnot studied yet
- tabbaḥahטַבָּחָהcooknot studied yet
- tivḥatטִבְחַתTibhathnot studied yet
- tevalyahuטְבַלְיָהוּTebaliahnot studied yet
- tavrimmonטַבְרִמּוֹןTabrimmonnot studied yet
- tevetטֵבֶתTebethnot studied yet
- tabbatטַבָּתTabbathnot studied yet
- tehorטְהוֹרpurenessnot studied yet
- tuטֵאטֵאto sweepnot studied yet
- tusטוּשׂto dartnot studied yet
- taḥahטָחָהto shootnot studied yet
- teḥonטְחוֹןgrindingnot studied yet
- taḥanahטַחֲנָהmillnot studied yet
- ti'aḥטִיחַcoatingnot studied yet
- telaטְלָאlambnot studied yet
- tela'imטְלָאִיםTelaimnot studied yet
- taltelahטַלְטֵלָהcaptivitynot studied yet
- talalטָלַלto covernot studied yet
- tamahטָמָהto defilenot studied yet
- tanaphטָנַףto soilnot studied yet
- ta'ahטָעָהto straynot studied yet
- ta'anטָעַןto loadnot studied yet
- ta'anטָעַןto piercenot studied yet
- tippuḥטִפֻּחִיםtender carenot studied yet
- taphaphטָפַףto mincenot studied yet
- taphashטָפַשׁbe insensitivenot studied yet
- taphatטָפַתTaphathnot studied yet
- taraḥטָרַחto burdennot studied yet