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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Actually, the second word is tokef, a noun, meaning force or validity. Takef is an adjective, not relevant here.
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<div>Tokpo = ha-tokef shelo, its force, etc.</div>
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<div>The first case, is as Jasmin says, the verb takaf with the third person pronominal suffix-- tekafo = takaf oto. As Jay says, this is a term from the Talmud Bava Metsia 6b = tekafo kohen.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">There are 2 different words: the first is
</span><span class="word"><span lang="HE" dir="RTL">תָּקַף</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="word"><span lang="HE" style=""><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">(patah under
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the second is </span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">תָּקֵף</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">(tsere under
</span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">ק</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span dir="LTR"></span>). The first
means “to attack”; the second means “valid, or in force” (as in a passport). The inclination of the first is tekafo (as in, “he attacked”); the second is tokpo (as in “the passport/milk/etc. has expired”).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">In the context of the Gemara the term being used is the first (the Kohen took the first-born animal by force), hence the word is to be vocalized as teḳafo.
See also E-Sh. and Alkalay (examples given under the first term is “yitsro toḳfo” “teḳafah yistrah”; an example under the second term is “pag tokpo”).</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heidi G Lerner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 1:19 PM<br>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">If we go with "tokfo/tokpo" vocalization rather than "tekafo" wouldn't the "</span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black">פ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"><span dir="LTR"></span>"
get a dagesh since it comes after a quiescent "</span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black">שבא״</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt; background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">making it toḳpo</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 10:15 AM<br>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">I just checked Jastrow and it has "toḳfo"</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 9:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:rtalbott@library.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">rtalbott@library.berkeley.edu</a>; Hebrew Name Authority Funnel<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Check out the phrase and its source in a Talmudic sugya in, e.g., Hebrew Wikipedia, where it is clear that the verbal construction
is tekafo<br>
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From: Heb-naco [<a href="mailto:heb-naco-bounces+jarovner=jtsa.edu@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">mailto:heb-naco-bounces+jarovner=jtsa.edu@lists.osu.edu</a>] On Behalf Of Robert M. TALBOTT<br>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:24 PM<br>
To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel<br>
Subject: [Heb-NACO] Tekafo vs. Tokpo: round 2<br>
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Folks:<br>
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I have a book here by Shabtai ben Meir, ha-Kohen, 1621-1662 where the first word in the title is tav-kuf-peh-vav. The last time this book came up, about ten years ago (maybe longer), the decree was that the form we were to use was "tekafo" in this particular
instance.<br>
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Anyhow, I checked in the 2007 EJ, Lo and behold, they cite the book as "Tokfo kohen." Discounting the "f" (Ester 10:2 places a dagesh in the peh), it looks to me like this is an authoritative stance that we didn't have the last time the question was asked.<br>
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So: tekafo or tokpo?<br>
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Bob<br>
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