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# חֲסַף

Biblical Aramaic

**clay** — used 9 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

clay [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e1_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲסַף: clay, potsherd [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e1_5b7_5e3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] clay, potsherd (𝔗 id.; Chr-Pal. ܚܣܦܐ clay vessel, ܚܨܒܢܐ pl. potsherds Schulth 68, Syriac ܚܶܨܦܳܐ potsherd; 𝔗 חַצְבָא, NH חָצָב clay vessel; Assyrian ḫaṣbu, id.; ܚܨܰܦ jar (PS 1238), whence Arabic خَزَفٌ pottery Frä 169, but Sab. חסף jar, according to HomZMG xlvi (1892), 532; cf. Ethiopic ܚܶܙܒܳܐ: jar (transp.; Di 1265); v. BH \[חַסְפַּם\]);—ח׳ abs. Dn 2:41 (ח׳ דִּי פֶּחָר), חֲסַ֑ף v 33, 42; cstr. ח׳ טִינָא v 41, 43; emph. חַסְפָּא v 34, 35, 43, 45.

### Jastrow 1903

חֲסַף II: rough clay clay vessel something with which to peel or scrape fragment of vessel, potsherd [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e1_5b7_5e3/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (preced.) (= h. חֶרֶשׂ) rough clay, מאנא דח׳ clay vessel (common and easily broken). (common and easily broken). Targ. O. Lev. XI, 33; a. e. \[something with which to peel or scrape,\] fragment of a vessel, potsherd. Targ. Prov. XXVI, 23.—Yeb. 92ᵇ, a. e., v. דְּלֵי. Kidd. 18ᵃ (prov.) נקיט … יהיבנא ליה ח׳ he had a pearl in his hand, and we give him a sherd, i.e. for a valuable object we give him a valueless paper; a. fr.—Pl. חַסְפִּין, חִ׳. Gen. R. s. 14, v. דְּבַק; Midr. Till. to Ps. II; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (3); \[were\] clay (2); the clay (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.33/#tree)

שָׁק֖וֹהִי דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֑ל רַגְל֕וֹהִי מִנְּהֵין֙ דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֔ל וּמִנְּהֵ֖ין דִּ֥י חֲסַֽף׃

*Word for word:* legs its \[were\].(diy).of iron feet its some of.them \[were\].(diy).of iron and some of.them \[were\].(diy).of clay

*JPS 1917:* its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.

[Daniel 2:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.42/#tree)

וְאֶצְבְּעָת֙ רַגְלַיָּ֔א מִנְּהֵ֥ין פַּרְזֶ֖ל וּמִנְּהֵ֣ין חֲסַ֑ף מִן־קְצָ֤ת מַלְכוּתָא֙ תֶּהֱוֵ֣ה תַקִּיפָ֔ה וּמִנַּ֖הּ תֶּהֱוֵ֥ה תְבִירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.toes of the.feet some of.them \[were\].iron and some of.them \[were\].clay some.of the.part of the.kingdom it.will.be strong and some of.it it.will.be breakable

*JPS 1917:* And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so part of the kingdom shall be strong, and part thereof broken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e1_5b7_5e3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e1_5b7_5e3/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).