Lexical Summary totaphoth: bands Original Word: טוֹפָפָהTransliteration: totaphoth Phonetic Spelling: (to-faw-faw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: bands Meaning: a fillet for, the forehead Strong's Concordance frontlet From an unusued root meaning to go around or bind; a fillet for the forehead -- frontlet. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2903. totaphoth טוֺטָפוֺת noun feminine plural bands (Late Hebrew טוֺטֶפֶת Aramaic טוֺטֶפְתָּא and especially plural טוטפין id.) — always bands, frontlet-bands, between the eyes ("" יד על אוֺת; compare עֵינֶיךָ בֵּין זִכָּרוֺן Exodus 13:9 "" id.); figurative of dedication of firstborn עיניך בין לְטוֺטָפֹת ֗֗֗ וְהָיָה 13:16 (JE); of commandments of לְטו ׳וְהָיוּ ׳י, Deuteronomy 11:18 and לְטֹטָפת וְהָיוּ 6:8. — This injunction, originally figurative for perpetual remembrance (otherwise Kn, and Kleinl.c. 666 ff., see above, BenzArchaeology 111 NowArchaeology i. 134), was taken literally by later Jews, and hence the custom of wearing phylacteries; see Di (on Exodus 13:16) WinerRE RiHWB (article Denkzettel) SmithDict. Bib. (article Frontlets) StaZAW 1894, 312 f., 317. טִיחַ see below טוּחַ. טִיט see below טוּט. טִירָה see below טוּר. טַל see below I. טלל. below |
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