חָצַץ
châtsats · H2686 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to march in formation
Action by which insects divides themselves into orderly groups like an army
ExamplesProverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, Yet all of them go out in ranks;
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to distribute
To divide an object into portions and share them out among a group of people
ExamplesJudges 5:11 “At the sound of those who distribute water among the watering places, There they will recount the righteous deeds of the LORD, The righteous deeds for His peasantry in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.
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Action by which someone determines an amount of time for humans to perform an event (to allot (a number or months))
ExamplesJob 21:21 “For what does he care about his household after him, When the number of his months is at an end?
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִסְפָּרnumber 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוֹלvoice, sound 1
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 2 entries
- Non-Whole002003001021
- The word denotes dividing or cutting something off in the midst, as in Judges 5:11's reference to those who distribute water and Proverbs 30:27's description of locusts dividing into ranks.
- Think002004002013
- The word can denote a deliberate act of dividing or apportioning, an organized allotment carried out by intention rather than chance.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2686. chatsats חָצַן verb divide (Late Hebrew makes a partition; Assyrian —aƒâƒu, cut in…
חָצַן verb divide (Late Hebrew makes a partition; Assyrian —aƒâƒu, cut in two, ZimBP 24 n.; Ethiopic curtail, diminish) —
Qal Participle חֹצֵץ intransitive Pro 30:27 of locusts ח ׳ויצא כלו; i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms.
Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים see II. חצץ.
Pu`al Perfect חֻצָּ֑צוּ חדשׁיו מספר Job 21:21 the number of his months, they have been cut in two (figurative for curtailed).
II. [חצץ] verb denominative only
Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים Jdg 5:11 archers (> those dividing spoil, since no object expressed and חלק more suitable for such meaning)
חֲצֹצְרָה חצצר, see IV. חצר.
I. חצר (√ of following; compare Arabic encompass, surround; Ethiopic surround, enclose by wall, etc.; enclosure; Late Hebrew חָצֵר court, Phoenician חצר id., Syriac , id.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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