Taw

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( v. t.) To push; to tug; to tow.

(2): ( v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.

(3): ( n.) Tow.

(4): ( v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.

(5): ( n.) A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.

(6): ( n.) A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]

TAW . The twenty-second letter of the Heb. alphabet, and as such employed in the 119th Psalm to designate the 22nd part, each verse of which begins with this letter.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]

tau ( תּ , t , , th ): The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet; transliterated in this Encyclopedia with the dāghesh as t , and as th without. It came also to be used for the number 400. For name, etc., see Alphabet . See also Forehead; Mark .

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