Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H8420: תָּו

tâv · pronounced tawv · “mark”

Definition

a mark; by implication, a signature

KJV translates it as: desire, mark.

Word origin: from H8427 (תָּוָה);

Extended definition

1) desire, mark
1a) mark (as a sign of exemption from judgment)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H8420 is translated

  • my ×1
  • a mark ×1
  • mark ×1

Bible verses with H8420 (tâv)

Tâv appears in 3 verses.

  • Job 31:35

    Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

  • Ezekiel 9:4

    And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

  • Ezekiel 9:6

    Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.