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# בֶּצַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1215

**gain made by violence** — used 23 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

gain made by violence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1215/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶ֫צַע: n.m. gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1215/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit—בֶּ֫צַע Gn 37:26 + 7 times (cstr. Ju 5:19 +); בָּ֑צַע Ex 18:21 + 7 times; sf. בִּצְעֶ֑ךָ Je 22:17; בִּצְעֵךְ Je 51:13 Ez 22:13; בִּצְעוֹ Is 56:11; 57:17; בִּצְעָם Ez 33:31 Mi 4:13;—gain made by violence (nearly = plunder) Ju 5:19 Mi 4:13; more generally, unjust gain Ex 18:21 1 S 8:3 ψ 119:36 Pr 28:16 Is 33:15; 56:11; 57:17 Je 22:17; 51:13 Ez 22:13; 33:31; as acc. cogn. c. בָּצַע Pr 1:19; 15:27 Je 6:13; 8:10 Ez 22:27 Hb 2:9; profit (with selfish suggestion) מה־ב׳ Gn 37:26 Mal 3:14 cf. ψ 30:10 Jb 22:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: unjust gain (8); gain (6); \[is the\] profit (3).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.27/#tree)

עֹכֵ֣ר בֵּ֭יתוֹ בּוֹצֵ֣עַ בָּ֑צַע וְשׂוֹנֵ֖א מַתָּנֹ֣ת יִחְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].troubling house his.own \[one.who\].gains.unjustly unjust.gain and \[one.who\].hates gifts he.will.live

*JPS 1917:* He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

[Psalms 119:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.36/#tree)

הַט־לִ֭בִּי אֶל־עֵדְוֺתֶ֗יךָ וְאַ֣ל אֶל־בָּֽצַע׃

*Word for word:* incline heart my to testimonies your and not to unjust.gain

*JPS 1917:* Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1215.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1215/): 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).