חָצָץ
châtsâts · H2687 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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gravel
Coarse sand or little stones; associated with low status; also sometimes found in food and therefore denoting an unexpected negative experience
ExamplesProverbs 20:17 Bread obtained by a lie is sweet to a person, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Lamentations 3:16 He has also made my teeth grind with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Stone001002005016
- The word denotes gravel or small stones, as in Proverbs 20:17's and Lamentations 3:16's images of a mouth filled with gravel.
- Dust001002005005
- The word can denote gritty, earthen particles, matching the sense of gravel carried in its two occurrences describing gravel in the mouth.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2687. chatsats חָצָץ noun [masculine] gravel (as divided, comminuted; Aramaic חֲצִיצָא,…
חָצָץ noun [masculine] gravel (as divided, comminuted; Aramaic חֲצִיצָא, ) — only absolute ׳ח Pro 20:17; Lam 3:16 [חֲצָצֶיךָ Psa 77:18 see חֵץ]. — ח ׳יְמַלֵּאפִֿיהוּ Pro 20:17 figurative of a liar; בח ׳וַיַּגְרֵס שִׁנָּ֑י Lam 3:16 and he hath crushed my teeth with gravel-stones, figurative of ׳י's dealings with sufferer.
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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