ta.phel describes what lacks taste in food and what is presented as worthless in a prophetic setting.

The attested uses describe a lack of taste in food in Job 6:6 and a negative evaluation within the prophets' visions in Lamentations 2:14.

1. Without taste in food · dominant

   In Job 6:6, the masculine singular absolute adjective occurs in a question about eating food without salt; the APB renders the clause, “Can tasteless food be eaten without salt.”

   Job 6:6
2. Worthless in prophetic visions · occasional

   In Lamentations 2:14, the same masculine singular absolute form occurs in the statement about what the prophets have seen; the APB renders the verse with “false and worthless things” and “misleading words.” The verse is read as a whole, so its precise English correspondence to the term cannot be isolated with certainty.

   Lamentations 2:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “tasteless” in Job 6:6. In Lamentations 2:14 it presents the prophetic material as “false and worthless things,” but the translation does not identify a word-for-word rendering.