Lexicon
טְפַר
te.phar
H2953
A:N-M Hebrew

nail/claw

2
Occurrences
1
Books
Hebrew
Language

te.phar denotes nails or claws, shown most clearly in the bronze claws of Daniel’s fourth beast.

The attested use concerns nails or claws: Daniel 7:19 places the construct form in the description of a beast with iron teeth and bronze claws, while the translation of Daniel 4:30 does not make the term’s contribution clear.

Senses in use

  1. Nails or claws in a concrete description · dominant

    In Daniel 7:19, the feminine plural construct form occurs in the description of the fourth beast, whose teeth are iron and whose claws are bronze; the APB renders the clause “whose teeth were of iron and whose claws were of bronze.” The same construct morphology is attested in Daniel 4:30, but the APB’s rendering of that verse does not expose the term’s specific contribution.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Daniel 7:19 the APB presents the term within “whose claws were of bronze.” In Daniel 4:30, the translation does not make its corresponding wording identifiable.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture