STRONGS NUMBER H2903


Word Summary
totaphoth: bands
Original Word: טוֹפָפָה
Transliteration: totaphoth
Phonetic Spelling: (to-faw-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: bands
Meaning: a fillet for, the forehead
Strong's Concordance
frontlet

From an unusued root meaning to go around or bind; a fillet for the forehead -- frontlet.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2903. totaphoth

טוֺטָפוֺתnoun feminine plural bands (Late Hebrew טוֺטֶפֶת‎ Aramaic טוֺטֶפְתָּא‎ and especially plural טוטפיןid.) — always bands, frontlet-bands, between the eyes ("" יד על אוֺת‎; compare עֵינֶיךָ בֵּין זִכָּרוֺןExodus 13:9 "" id.); figurative of dedication of firstborn עיניך בין לְטוֺטָפֹת ֗֗֗ וְהָיָה13:16 (JE); of commandments of לְטו ׳וְהָיוּ ׳י,Deuteronomy 11:18 and לְטֹטָפת וְהָיוּ6:8. — This injunction, originally figurative for perpetual remembrance (otherwise Kn, and Kleinl.c. 666 ff., see above, BenzArchaeology 111 NowArchaeology i. 134), was taken literally by later Jews, and hence the custom of wearing phylacteries; see Di (on Exodus 13:16) WinerRE RiHWB (article Denkzettel) SmithDict. Bib. (article Frontlets) StaZAW 1894, 312 f., 317.

טִיחַ‎ see below טוּחַ‎.

טִיט‎ see below טוּט‎.

טִירָה‎ see below טוּר‎.

טַל‎ see below I. טלל‎. below