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Strong’s H2963 · Hebrew

טָרַף

ṭâraph · taw-raf'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)

In the King James Version catch, [idiom] without doubt, feed, ravin, rend in pieces, [idiom] surely, tear (in pieces).

In 22 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 37:33And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
  2. Genesis 44:28And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
  3. Genesis 49:27Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
  4. Exodus 22:13If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
  5. Deuteronomy 33:20And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
  6. Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
  7. Job 18:4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
  8. Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  9. Psalms 17:12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  10. Psalms 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
  11. Psalms 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  12. Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
  13. Jeremiah 5:6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
  14. Ezekiel 19:3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
  15. Ezekiel 19:6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
  16. Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
  17. Ezekiel 22:27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  18. Hosea 5:14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
  19. Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
  20. Amos 1:11Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
  21. Micah 5:8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
  22. Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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