STRONGS NUMBER H2954


Word Summary
taphash: to be gross
Original Word: טָפַשׁ
Transliteration: taphash
Phonetic Spelling: (taw-fash')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be gross
Meaning: to be thick, to be stupid
Strong's Concordance
be fat

A primitive root; properly, apparently to be thick; figuratively, to be stupid -- be fat.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2954. taphash

טָפַשׁverb be gross (Late Hebrew Hithpa`el grow stupid, and derivatives; Aramaic טְפֵשׁ‎, for Hebrew שׁמןIsaiah 6:11, Ithpe`el be stupid; compare Assyrian ‰apâšu, be abundant, large, GuyJAS 1883, Août-Sept. 189) — metaphor לִבָּ֑ם כַּחֵלֶב טָפַשׁPsalm 119:70 their heart is gross, like fat.