ta.val denotes putting a person, body part, or object into a liquid, and once describes being plunged into a pit.

The prevailing use describes placing an object, body part, or person into a liquid: fingers enter blood or oil, hyssop enters blood or water, and feet or a person enter water. A single poetic occurrence describes the speaker as being plunged into a pit.

1. Putting something into a liquid · dominant

   The Qal forms occur where a finger is put into blood before sprinkling, hyssop is put into blood or water, a tunic is put into blood, and a person enters the Jordan. In Exodus 12:22 the APB renders the action as “dip it in the blood,” while Joshua 3:15 describes the priests' feet as “dipped in the edge of the water.”

   Exodus 12:22Genesis 37:31Leviticus 4:6Numbers 19:182 Kings 5:14Joshua 3:15
2. Being plunged into a pit · rare

   In Job 9:31, the Qal imperfect addresses the speaker directly in the clause the APB renders, “then you plunge me into the pit,” followed by the statement that his garments abhor him. The setting is not a named liquid, so the verse presents the action as a pit-bound image rather than the ordinary handling of an object in blood, water, oil, or food.

   Job 9:31

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the action with “dipped,” including objects in blood and persons or feet in water; it uses “soaked” for the cloth in 2 Kings 8:15 and “plunge” in Job 9:31. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.