פֶּצַע
petsaʻ · H6482 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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bruise, wound
Area of physical damage on the body; caused by accident or aggression; often used in a figurative sense to refer to difficult circumstances
ExamplesGenesis 4:23 Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Pay attention to my words, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me!
Exodus 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Job 9:17 “For He bruises me with a storm And multiplies my wounds without cause.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- יmy 2
- אָהַבto love 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָבָהto increase 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִיwho? 1
- אָמַןto believe, to be faithful, to trust 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 2
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חַבּוּרָהwound 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
- Hebrew near-synonym denoting a blow or wound; both terms refer to physical injury but מַכָּה has broader range including the act of striking itself
- חַבּוּרָה chabbûwrâh · H2250 · wound, bruise
- Hebrew term for bruise or welt; more specific type of wound/injury than פֶּצַע, referring particularly to marks from beating
Contrasting words 1 word
- מַרְפֵּא marpêʼ · H4832 · healing, to heal, to restore
- Lexical opposite: פֶּצַע refers to the injury/wound itself, while מַרְפֵּא refers to the healing or cure of such injury
In the other Testament 2 words
- τραῦμα traûma · G5134 · wound
- Direct Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew פֶּצַע, both referring to a physical wound or injury; standard translation in LXX contexts
- πληγή plēgḗ · G4127 · to hit, to strike, to beat
- Common Greek term for wound/injury that overlaps semantically with פֶּצַע; frequently used in LXX to translate Hebrew wound terminology
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impact002001001024
- פֶּצַע denotes a wound, the injury left by a violent blow, as of the wound and bruise Lamech boasts of in Genesis 4:23, and the wounds a friend can be trusted to inflict in faithfulness in Proverbs 27:6.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6482. petsa מֶּ֫צַע noun masculinePro 27:6 bruise, wound; — absolute ׳פ Exo 21:25; Isa…
מֶּ֫צַע noun masculinePro 27:6 bruise, wound; — absolute ׳פ Exo 21:25; Isa 1:6 (figurative), Pro 20:30 מָּ֑צַע Exo 21:25; suffix מִּצְעִי Gen 4:23; plural מְּצָעִים Pro 23:29; figurative also construct מִּצְעֵי Pro 27:6 and suffix מְּצָעַי Job 9:17.
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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