פָּצַע
pâtsaʻ · H6481 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to bruise, to wound
Causative action by which physical damage is done to the body of humans someone else; caused by accident or aggression
ExamplesDeuteronomy 23:1 “No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off may enter the assembly of the LORD.
1 Kings 20:37 Then he found another man and said, “Please strike me.” And the man struck him, injuring him.
Song of Solomon 5:7 “The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, They struck me and wounded me; The guards of the walls took my shawl away from me.
How it’s used In 4 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
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נִיme 1
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דַּכָּהcrushing 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- מַכָּה makkâh · H4347 · stroke, lash, stripe
- Common Hebrew noun for a blow or wound; semantically very close to פָּצַע but from a different root (נכה), often used interchangeably in contexts of physical injury.
- חַבּוּרָה chabbûwrâh · H2250 · wound, bruise
- Hebrew noun denoting a wound or bruise from a blow, particularly a surface wound or welt; distinct from פָּצַע but semantically related as a type of injury.
In the other Testament 2 words
- τραῦμα traûma · G5134 · wound
- Standard Greek noun for a wound or injury, the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew פָּצַע in contexts referring to physical wounds.
- πληγή plēgḗ · G4127 · to hit, to strike, to beat
- Greek term for a blow or wound, commonly used in LXX to translate Hebrew wound vocabulary including contexts where פָּצַע appears.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- פָּצַע means to wound or bruise, as of the wound and bruise Lamech boasts of inflicting in Genesis 4:23, and the wound suffered in the heat of a quarrel described in Proverbs 23:35.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6481. patsa [מָּצַע] verb bruise, wound by bruising (Late Hebrew split, bruise; Arabic…
[מָּצַע] verb bruise, wound by bruising (Late Hebrew split, bruise; Arabic squeeze a ripe date, rub; Aramaic מְּצַע split); —
Qal Perfect3plural suffix מְּצָעוּנִי הִכּוּנִי Son 5:7; Infinitive absolute וּפָצֹעַ הַכֵּה 1Ki 20:37 a smiting and a bruising (him); Participle Pass. construct מְּצוּעַדַּֿכָּה Deu 23:2 one wounded by crushing.
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
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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