Words

תָּמַךְ H8551

Home gloss

clasp

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

hold up / take

Note

To grasp and hold: a father's hand (48:17), Moses' hands (Exod 17:12), the spindle (Prov 31:19), "my servant whom I clasp" (Isa 42:1). "Grasp" is תָּפַשׂ's, "hold" אָחַז's, "support" סָמַךְ's

Rulings

2, 39

Occurrences (1)

Genesis 48

• 48:17 And Joseph saw that his father was setting the hand of his right on the head of Ephraim, and it was bad in his eyes; and he clasped the hand of his father to remove it from on the head of Ephraim onto the head of Manasseh.