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skrab ´' 50 : Occurs only in 1 Samuel 21:13 , as the translation of תּרת , tāwāh : "David ... feigned himself mad and scrabbled on the doors of the gate." "To scrabble" (modern English "scrawl") is here to make unmeaning marks; tāwāh means "to make a mark" from tāw , "a mark," especially as a cross (Ezekiel 9:4 ), a signature (Job 31:35 , see the Revised Version (British and American)), the name of the Hebrew letter ת originally made in the form of a cross; the Revised Version margin has "made marks"; but Septuagint has tumpanı́zō , "to beat as a drum," which the Vulgate, Ewald, Driver and others follow ("beat upon" or "drummed on the doors of the city," which seems more probable).

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Scrabble'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/s/scrabble.html. 1915.

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