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פָּצָה

pâtsâh · H6475 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Action by which humans open wide their mouth, in order to eat or drink, to speak, or to menace (to open (one's mouth) wide)

    Examples

    Genesis 4:11 “Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

    Numbers 16:30 “But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them with everything that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have been disrespectful to the LORD.”

    Deuteronomy 11:6 and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, among all Israel—

  2. to rescue, to deliver

    Causative action by which deities come to the aide of humans in need

    Examples

    Psalm 144:7 Reach out with Your hand from on high; Rescue me and save me from great waters, From the hand of foreigners

    Psalm 144:10 Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues His servant David from the evil sword.

    Psalm 144:11 Rescue me and save me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks deceit And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  3. to speak

    Literally: (one's) lips open wide; hence: actions by which humans utter words

    Examples

    Psalm 66:14 Which my lips uttered And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.

How it’s used In 5 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

15 occurrences in 10 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

14 occurrences in 3 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 6 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 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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Near synonyms 3 words
פָּעַר pâʻar · H6473 · to open (one's mouth) wide
Both words share the core sense of opening or gaping, especially of the mouth. פָּצָה (pâtsâh, H6475) has a broader range (deliver, rid, and speech-related senses), but they overlap in "gape" or "open."
פָּטוּר pâṭûwr · H6358 · exempt, to dismiss
The target lexeme, which includes ‘open’ alongside ‘gape, deliver, utter,’ and פָּטַר, limited to ‘open’ and closely related senses, overlap in the sense of opening, making them near-synonyms.
פָּשַׂק pâsaq · H6589 · to open wide, to spread
The target lexeme has the broader usage ‘deliver, gape, open, rid, utter,’ while פָּשַׂק is narrowly glossed ‘to open wide.’ The two are near-synonyms in the shared sense of opening.
In the other Testament 1 word
ἀνοίγω anoígō · G455 · to open, to make open, to regain one’s hearing
Greek ἀνοίγω (anoígō, G455) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew פָּצָה (pâtsâh, H6475) in its core sense of physical opening (mouth, container), representing direct translation equivalence across the semantic range of 'to open' in both languages.
Semantic domains 3 entries
Open002001001042
פָּצָה means to open wide, as of the ground that opens its mouth to receive Abel's blood in Genesis 4:11, and the earth that opens its mouth and swallows Korah's rebels in Numbers 16:30 and Deuteronomy 11:6.
Safe002003003019
The word also means to deliver or rid, a facet of the word's range not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the ground opening to swallow the rebellious.
Speak002004001009008
The word describes opening one's mouth to utter a word or vow, as when Jephthah laments that he has opened his mouth to the LORD in an irrevocable vow in Judges 11:35, and his daughter answers that he must do as he has spoken in Judges 11:36.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6475. patsah [מָּצָה] verb part, open (Arabic I, II. separate, remove; Aramaic מְּצָא…
H6475. patsah
[מָּצָה] verb part, open (Arabic I, II. separate, remove; Aramaic מְּצָא especially set free, Pa`el set free); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular מָּֽצְתָה Gen 4:11 +, 2 masculine singular מָּצִיתָ Jdg 11:36, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִפְצֶה Job 35:16; Imperative masculine singular מְּצֶה Eze 2:8, suffix פְצֵנִי Psa 144:7; Psa 144:11; Participle מֹּצֶה Isa 10:14, ׳מּוֺ Psa 144:10; —
1 open mouth:
a. to swallow, figurative of ground, הָאֲדָמָה Gen 4:11, (J), Num 16:30 (JE), הָאָרֶץ Deu 11:6; of enemies, + עַל person Lam 2:16; Lam 3:46; Psa 22:14; literal Eze 2:8.
b. to speak Jdg 11:35-36, (utter a vow, + ׳אֶליֿ); Job 35:16; hence = utter, שְׁפָתַי מָּצוּ אֲשֶׁר Psa 66:14; of bird chirping פֶה מֹּצֶה Isa 10:14 (in figurative).
2 snatch away, set free (Aramaic loan-word), only Psalm 144, + הִצִּיל with מִן Isa 10:7; Isa 10:11; ׳פ with מִן Isa 10:10.

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Open11 occurrencesSafe3 occurrencesSpeak1 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

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