Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)
KJV Usage: catch, X without doubt, feed, ravin, rend in pieces, X surely, tear (in pieces)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
טָרַף (ta.raph) — to tear. 1) to tear, rend, pluck 1a) (Qal) to tear, rend 1b) (Niphal) to be torn in pieces 1c) (Poal) to be torn in pieces 1d) (Hiphil) to provide food
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · טָרָף · טֶרֶף · טְרֵפָה
Impact | Dead | verb qal, verb nif
to tear to pieces, to maul, to mangle = action by which a person or animal is cut up and killed with one's claws and/or teeth ► for food or in order to enlarge one's territory; ≈ associated with terrifying and deadly viciousness
GEN 37:33 · GEN 37:33 · GEN 44:28 · GEN 44:28 · GEN 49:27 · GEN 49:27 · EXO 22:12 · EXO 22:12 · EXO 22:12 · EXO 22:12 · DEU 33:20 · JOB 16:9 · JOB 18:4 · PSA 7:3 · PSA 7:3 · PSA 17:12 · PSA 22:14 · PSA 50:22 · JER 5:6 · EZK 19:3 · EZK 19:6 · EZK 22:25 · EZK 22:27 · HOS 5:14 · HOS 6:1 · AMO 1:11 · AMO 1:11 · MIC 5:7 · NAM 2:13
Non-Possess | Ingest | verb hif | ≈ נתן
to give (food) to eat, to provide (food) to eat = to provide food for someone to eat
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
טָרַף vb. tear, rend, pluck Qal tear, rend
Niph. of animal torn
Pu. Joseph has certainly been torn in pieces
Hiph. let me devour my appointed bread
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