טֶ֫בַח
te.vach
Tebah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analysis of Hebrew Tebah (H2875) The Hebrew word *tebah* (טֶ֫בַח) appears only once in the biblical text, which severely limits our ability to establish its precise meaning or semantic range. With a single occurrence, we cannot determine whether this word had multiple related senses or occupied a specific semantic niche in biblical Hebrew vocabulary. The lexical data provided does not include the actual definition of the word, the specific verse in which it appears, or the context of its usage. Without this essential information, any claims about what *tebah* means or how it functioned in ancient Hebrew would constitute speculation rather than analysis grounded in evidence. The rarity of the term—appearing only once—suggests it may have been an uncommon word, a technical term, or possibly a hapax legomenon (a word appearing nowhere else in biblical literature). To meaningfully analyze this word's significance, a reader would need access to the biblical passage containing it, comparative lexical data from related languages, and scholarly consensus on its translation. The current dataset establishes only that *tebah* existed in biblical Hebrew but provides insufficient evidence for substantive interpretation.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text