חֲסַף
chăçaph · H2635 · Aramaic · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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clay
Stiff tenacious earth, the material of which bricks and pottery are made, regarded as relatively weak compared with stone and therefore as relatively worthless material
ExamplesDaniel 2:33 its legs of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
Daniel 2:34 “You continued watching until a stone was broken off without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
Daniel 2:35 “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed to pieces all at the same time, and they were like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the entire earth.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- טִיןmiry 2
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פֶּחָרpotter 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דְּקַקbreak to pieces 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶןthem 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 4
- עִםby 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dust001002005005
- Daniel 2:33 describes the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, “its legs of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2635. chasaph חֲסַף noun [masculine] clay, potsherd (ᵑ7 id.; Christian-Palestinian…
חֲסַף noun [masculine] clay, potsherd (ᵑ7 id.; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic clay vessel, plural potsherds Schulth68, Syriac potsherd; חצְבָא ᵑ7, Late Hebrew חָצָב clay vessel; Assyrian —aƒbu, id., jar (PS1238), whence Arabic pottery Frä169, but Sabean חסף jar, acc to HomZMG Homxivi (1892), 532; compare Ethiopic jar (transposed; Di1265); see Biblical Hebrew [חַסְמַּם]); — ׳ח absolute Dan 2:41 (׳ח מֶּחָר יְ), חֲסַ֑ף Dan 2:33. Dan 2:42; construct ׳ח טִינָא Dan 2:41. Dan 2:43; emphatic חַסְמָּא Dan 2:34. Dan 2:35. Dan 2:43.v: 45.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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