Biblica Analytica

תְּקֵף

te.qeph (H8631)

to grow strong

5 verses 1 books OT 5 / NT 0
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# Analysis of תְּקֵף (Tequeph) The Hebrew verb תְּקֵף carries the fundamental meaning "to grow strong," indicating a process of increasing in strength or power. With only five occurrences in the biblical text, this is a relatively rare term, suggesting it was employed for specific contexts where the concept of growing stronger needed particular emphasis. The rarity of this word in the biblical corpus makes its appearances significant whenever they occur. Rather than being a common, everyday term for strength or power, תְּקֵף appears to have been selected deliberately by biblical writers to convey the notion of strength as a dynamic, developing condition—something that increases or intensifies over time. This distinguishes it semantically from static descriptions of strength and positions it alongside other verbs describing processes of change and development. Without access to the specific contexts in which these five occurrences appear, the precise range of applications remains limited by the data provided. However, the definition itself—focused on the process of becoming stronger rather than the state of being strong—suggests the word was useful for describing growth, intensification, or consolidation of power in whatever situations the biblical texts addressed.

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Daniel 4:11

The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

Daniel 4:20

The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;

Daniel 4:22

it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.