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# בָּצֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1216

**swell** — used 2 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

swell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1216/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּצֵק: vb. swell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1216/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swell— Pf. 3 fs. בָּצֵ֑קָה Dt 8:4; 3 pl. בָּצֵ֑קוּ Ne 9:21;—swell, or receive swellings, blisters, of foot, Di Dt 8:4, Ry Ne 9:21.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it swelled (1); they swelled (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 8:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.4/#tree)

שִׂמְלָ֨תְךָ֜ לֹ֤א בָֽלְתָה֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָ וְרַגְלְךָ֖ לֹ֣א בָצֵ֑קָה זֶ֖ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* clothing your not it.wore.out from on you and foot your not it.swelled this forty year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

[Nehemiah 9:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.21/#tree)

וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה כִּלְכַּלְתָּ֥ם בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר לֹ֣א חָסֵ֑רוּ שַׂלְמֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ לֹ֣א בָל֔וּ וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֥א בָצֵֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* and forty year\[s\] you sustained.them in the wilderness not they.were.lacking clothes their not they.wore.out and feet their not they.swelled

*JPS 1917:* Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1216.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1216/): 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).