טָפַף ṭâphaph — to trip (with short steps) coquettishly
Translated in the KJV as mince.
a primitive root; apparently; to trip (with short steps) coquettishly.
ṭâphaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive absolute 1
וְטָפֹף֙ Isa 3:16 Infinitive absolute
Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›