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Strong's #2950 - טָפַל
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1) (Qal) to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
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defile; Assyrian ‰apâlu, besmear (?), Dl Proverbs 48; HWB) — Qal Perfect 3 plural טָֽפְלוּ Psalm 119:69; Imperfect 2 masculine singular וַתִּטְמֹּל Job 14:17 Participle plural construct טֹפְלֵי Job 13:4; — טָֽפְלוּ עָלַי שֶׁקֶר זֵדִים Psalm 119:69 insolent men have plastered falsehood over me, 'making his real character unrecognisable' (De); טִפְלֵי שֶׁקֶר Job 13:4 ye are falsehood-plasterers ("" רֹפְאֵי אֱלִל); compare Assyrian amât taš‡irti tâpilti Ullusum, a speech of falsehood besmearing Ullusum, Dt Proverbs 48; וַתִּטְמֹּל עַלעֲֿוֺנִי Job 14:17 and thou hast glued over mine iniquity, i.e. glued it up, for safe keeping against the day of reckoning ("" חָתֻם בִּצְרוֺר מִּשְׁעִי).
טָפַל prop. (as in Talmudic) to patch, to sew together; figuratively, to frame lies, comp. δόλον ῥάπτειν, suere dolos, Psalms 119:69; Job 13:4. Elliptically, Job 14:17, וַתִּטְפֹּל עַל־עֲוֹנִי “and thou devisest (false things) upon my iniquity,” i.e. thou increasest my sins with false charges. Compare a very similar passage, Deuteronomy 1:1 [Targ.] Jon. טְפַלְתּוּן עֲלוֹי מִלֵּי שִׁקְאָ “ye devise (and would add) upon him words of falsehood.” (Arabic طفّل to frame speech artfully, compare Gr. ῥάπτειν ἔπη, whence ῥαψῳδός.)
