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Strong's numbers

טָרַף (H2963)

ṭâraph

taw-raf'

a primitive root; to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels); catch, [idiom] without doubt, feed, ravin, rend in pieces, [idiom] surely, tear (in pieces).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

טָרַף vb. tear, rend, pluck
Qal tear, rend
Niph. of animal torn
Pu. Joseph has certainly been torn in pieces
Hiph. let me devour my appointed bread

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

22 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Psalms 50:22
    Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  • Proverbs 30:8
    Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
  • Jeremiah 5:6
    Wherefore 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.
  • Ezekiel 19:3
    And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
  • Ezekiel 19:6
    And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
  • Ezekiel 22:25
    There 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.
  • Ezekiel 22:27
    Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  • Hosea 5:14
    For 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.
  • Hosea 6:1
    Come, 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.
  • Amos 1:11
    Thus 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: