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# חָמַץ

Biblical Hebrew

**be ruthless** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be ruthless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5de_5b7_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חמץ²: vb. be [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5de_5b7_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be ruthless (dub. √; perhaps by-form of חמם; perhaps error for it; identif. by most with I. חמץ, be sour, hence sharp, violent, but connexion improb.)—only Pt. act. מִכַּף מְעַוּל וְחוֹמֵץ ψ 71:4 from the hand of the unjust and ruthless (‖ מִיַּד רָשָׁע).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who is\] ruthless (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 71:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.4/#tree)

אֱ‍ֽלֹהַ֗י פַּ֭לְּטֵנִי מִיַּ֣ד רָשָׁ֑ע מִכַּ֖ף מְעַוֵּ֣ל וְחוֹמֵץ׃

*Word for word:* my.God my deliver me from.\[the\] hand of.\[the\].wicked from.\[the\] palm of.\[one.who\].acts.unjustly and \[one.who.is\].ruthless

*JPS 1917:* O my God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5de_5b7_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5de_5b7_5e5/): 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).