H8596 - תֹּף (tôph)

H8596 תֹּף (tôph) tofe

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

tambourine

Strong's Definition

a tambourine

Derivation: from H8608 (תָּפַף) contracted;

KJV Usage: tabret, timbrel.

TWOT Reference: 2536a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) timbrel, tambourine

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G836

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

timbrel, tambourine

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

תֹּף tôph BDB Definition: 1) timbrel, tambourine Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H8608 contracted Same Word by TWOT Number: 2536a Total KJV Occurrences: 17

Bible Occurrences (16)

31:27

15:20

11:34

10:5 18:6

6:5

13:8

21:12

81:2 149:3 150:4

5:12 24:8 30:32

31:4

28:13

Genesis 31:27

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

Exodus 15:20

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women... followed her with tambourines and dancing.

Judges 11:34

And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing!... She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

1 Samuel 10:5

After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where... the Philistines [have] an outpost.... As you approach... the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

1 Samuel 18:6

As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

2 Samuel 6:5

David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments..., harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 13:8

David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

Job 21:12

singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.