Word

פָּצַח

pâtsach · H6476 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

to break in pieces

Causative action by which humans cut objects into small pieces

Examples
Micah 3:3 Who eat the flesh of my people, Strip off their skin from them, Smash their bones, And chop them up as for the pot, And as meat in a cauldron!”
Action by which humans engage without restraint in an expression of joy (to burst (into song))

Examples
Psalm 98:4 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; Be cheerful and sing for joy and sing praises.
Isaiah 14:7 “The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.
Isaiah 44:23 Shout for joy, you heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; Break into a shout of jubilation, you mountains, Forest, and every tree in it; For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He shows His glory.

How it’s used In 3 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

8 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: you (more than one) 4
Not stated: they 2
גִּבְעָהhill 1
הַרmountain 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עֶצֶםbone 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for+ פָּנִיםface, presence, before 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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In the other Testament 1 word

βοάω boáō · G994 · to cry out, to scream, to shout: Greek βοάω emphasizes the vocal act of crying out or shouting, typically in distress or tumult, while Hebrew פָּצַח covers both vocal bursting forth (especially into joyful song) and broader breaking-forth imagery; the overlap is primarily in the loud vocal expression domain.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Impact002001001024: פָּצַח means to break forth, a bursting release of sound, as of the earth breaking forth into shouts of joy in Isaiah 14:7 and the mountains breaking into joyful shouting in Isaiah 44:23 and 49:13.
Engage002003003011: This domain's connection to פָּצַח is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of bursting forth into joyful shouting rather than any active engagement between parties.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6476. patsach מָּצַח verb cause to break or burst forth, break forth with (compare…

H6476. patsach
מָּצַח verb cause to break or burst forth, break forth with (compare Arabic break, crush; Ethiopic shatter; Syriac is be joyous, hilarious); —
Qal Perfect3plural רִנָּה מָּֽצְחוּ Isa 14:7 they have broken forth with joyous shout; Imperfect רִנָּה יִפְצְחוּ Isa 55:12 (of mountains); Imperative feminine singular רִנָּה מִּצְחִי Isa 54:1 (of Zion); masculine plural ר ׳מִּצְחוּ Isa 44:23; Isa 49:13 Qr (> Kt יפצחו; of mountains); absolute מִּצְחוּ Isa 52:9; Psa 98:4 (both + רַנְּנוּ).
Pi`el break bones in pieces: Perfect3plural מִּצֵּ֑חוּ Mic 3:3.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Impact1 occurrence Engage7 occurrences

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