taph denotes children or young dependents, commonly named alongside women, households, and livestock.

The term identifies children or young dependents as a group, regularly alongside women and other household members. The verses place them in family provision and travel, public assemblies, settlement and protection, and lists of populations affected by capture or violence.

1. Children as members of a household or population · dominant

   Both construct and absolute forms identify the children included with households or larger groups. In Genesis 46:5 the APB renders a group carried in wagons as including “their little ones, and their wives”; in Deuteronomy 31:12 it includes “the children” among those assembled to hear; and in Deuteronomy 20:14 it occurs in a city population listed with women, livestock, and spoil.

   Genesis 46:5Deuteronomy 31:12Deuteronomy 20:14Numbers 32:26Joshua 8:35Jeremiah 43:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the term as “children” or “little ones,” especially in household and population lists. Because the APB translates whole verses rather than aligning individual words, these renderings confirm the group described by the clauses rather than establish separate meanings.