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פָּסַח

pâçach · H6452 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to be lamed

    State in which humans are disabled in one of their legs or feet, and so have difficulty walking

    Examples

    2 Samuel 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was disabled in both feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled. But it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and could no longer walk. And his name was Mephibosheth.

  2. to hop around

    Literally: to be lamed; hence: action by which humans move about unevenly, as if they are disabled in one of their legs or feet

    Examples

    1 Kings 18:26 Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it, and they called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they limped about the altar which they had made.

  3. to pass over, to spare

    Literally: to skip over; hence: action by which supernatural beings pass by a certain location without engaging in the activity for which they have come

    Examples

    Exodus 12:13 ‘The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

    Exodus 12:23 “For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; but when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

  4. to limp, to hobble

    Literally: to limp on two opinions; process by which humans are unable to waver between two opinions and unable to make up their minds, as someone who walks on two unequally sized legs is unable to make good progress

    Examples

    1 Kings 18:21 Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to struggle with the two choices? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him so much as a word.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 6 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 8 groups

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 4 entries
Unable002001001065
פָּסַח describes being lame or disabled, as of Mephibosheth who became lame in both feet as a child in 2 Samuel 4:4.
Move002002001012
The word describes passing over or leaping past, as of the LORD who will pass over the blood-marked houses of Israel and not strike them in Exodus 12:13, 12:23, and 12:27.
Non-Engage002003003012
The word also describes limping or wavering between two opinions, a failure to commit, as when Elijah challenges the people who halt between following the LORD and Baal in 1 Kings 18:21.
Think002004002013
The word's picture of wavering between two opinions in 1 Kings 18:21 ties it to an unresolved process of decision, though this facet is not distinctly separate from the wavering itself already illustrated.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פָּסַחpâçach · H6452פֶּסַח peçach · H6453 · passover · 49×פִּסֵּחַ piççêach · H6455 · to be lamed · 14×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6452. pacach I. מָּסַח verb pass or spring over; — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳פ Exo…
H6452. pacach
I. מָּסַח verb pass or spring over; —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳פ Exo 12:27, ׳וּפ consecutive V:23 (J); 1 singular וּפָסַחְתִּ֫י Exo 12:13 (P), all with עַל, of ׳י passing over (sparing) houses of Israel; Infinitive absolute מָּסוֺחַ Isa 31:5 a passing over (SC. עַליְֿרוּשָׁלַםִ).
II. [מָּסַח] verb limp (Thes below I. ׳פ but dubious; Arabic is dislocate; according to Gerber73 II. ׳פ is denominative from מִּסֵּחַ [and this below I. ׳פ?]); —
Qal Participle plural הַסְּעַמִּים עַלשְֿׁתֵּי מֹּסְחִים 1Ki 18:21 figurative (see [ סְעִמָּה]).
Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּמָּסֵחַ וַיִּמֹּל 2Sa 4:4 and he fell and was made limping (lame).
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine plural עַלהַֿמִּזְבֵּחַ וַיְפַסְּחוּ 1Ki 18:26 they went limping (along by the altar), i.e. probably in their dance, see Kit PietschmPhön. 220 (Gr ויפסעו [ = וַיִּפְשְׂעוּ] stepped).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 4 entries
Unable1 occurrenceMove1 occurrenceNon-Engage4 occurrencesThink1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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