ta.phaph denotes beating activity, attested in feminine plural participial forms in scenes of blessing and flight.

The attested forms present an ongoing beating action by feminine plural participants: one occurs in a call to bless God, and the other in Nahum’s scene of Nineveh’s flight; the translation does not isolate the term’s contribution in either verse.

1. Beating action by feminine plural participants · dominant

   In Psalm 68:26, the Qal active participle feminine plural occurs in a verse whose APB rendering calls hearers to “Bless God in the congregations.” In Nahum 2:8, the Poel active participle feminine plural occurs in the scene where Nineveh’s people flee; the APB renders, “and they flee,” but does not identify a separate English equivalent for the term.

   Psalm 68:26Nahum 2:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents Psalm 68:26 as a call to bless God and Nahum 2:8 as a scene of flight, but its loose verse-level renderings do not isolate an English rendering for this term.