past (עבר)
טָרַף Iyov 16:9;
טָרָ֑ף Hoshea 6:1, etc.; future (עתיד)
יִטְרֹף Tehillim 7:3;
וַיִּטְרֹף Amos 1:11 (but see below);
יִטְרָ֑ף Breishis 49:27;
אֶטְרֹף Hoshea 5:14 Tehillim 50:22; infinitive (מקור)
לִטְרֹף Tehillim 17:12; participle (בינוני) active
טֹרֵף Iyov 18:4, etc.;—
tear rend, of wild beasts,
Breishis 37:33,
Breishis 44:28 (J; inf. absolute c. Pu. q.see),
Shemos 22:12 (inf. absolute c.
Niph. q.see) Elsewhere only in simile and metaphorically; simile of Gad’s fierceness
Devarim 33:20 (like a lioness, poem); so of Benjamin
Breishis 49:27 (as a wolf, poem); of the remnant of Jacob, like a young lion among sheep,
רָמַם וְטָרַף Micha 5:7; of the wicked,
Tehillim 17:12 (lion),
Tehillim 7:3 object
נַפְשִׁי (like a lion);
Tehillim 22:14 psalmist’s foes like lion (‖
שֹׁאֵג);
Yechezkel 22:25 (טֹרֵף טָ֑רֶף), princes like wolves v
Tehillim 22:27 (
the same); metaphorically of Israel’s princes, like young lion
Tehillim 19:3,
Tehillim 19:6 (c.
טֶרֶף direct object cogn.); of Nineveh’s king
Nachum 2:13 (as lion); of God’s treatment of the wicked
Hoshea 5:14 (like a lion),
Tehillim 50:22; subj. wrath of God
(אַף) conceived as assailing Job,
Iyov 16:9 his wrath teareth and persecuteth me; compare
טָרָ֖ף וְיִרְפָּאֵנוּ Hoshea 6:1 subj.
י׳ (‖
יַךְ וְיַחְבְּשֵׁנוּ; on tenses see Driver
§ 84 β; 171, 174 n. 1); subj. anger of Edom (absolute)
Amos 1:11, but read perhaps
וַיִּטֹּר for
וַיִּטְרֹף and he kept his anger perpetually, so Olshausen on
Tehillim 103:9 Wellhausen;
טֹרֵף נַפְשׁוֹ בְּאַפּוֹ, said of Job by Bildad
Iyov 18:4.