Hebrew word · H8599

תַּפּוּחַ

tapuach

Tappuah

Appears 6 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

Tappuah = "the apple city"

a town on the border in Ephraim

Also named: en tap.pu.ach (עֵין תַּפּוּחַ "En-tappuah" H5887)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Joshua · 5
  1. Joshua 12:17 תַּפּ֙וּחַ֙ Tappuah

    the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

  2. Joshua 15:34 תַּפּ֖וּחַ Tappuah

    Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

  3. Joshua 16:8 מִתַּפּ֜וּחַ from Tappuah

    From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Sea. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Ephraim,

    Here: A town name probably meaning 'apple' (or some similar fruit tree). It is the western starting point of this stretch of Ephraim's northern border, south of Shechem in the central hills.

  4. Joshua 17:8 תַּפּ֑וּחַ וְתַפּ֛וּחַ Tappuah, and Tappuah

    The region of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah itself, on the border of Manasseh, belonged to Ephraim.

1 Chronicles · 1
  1. 1 Chronicles 2:43 וְתַפֻּ֖חַ and Tappuah

    The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.

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