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# חָסַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2628

**finish off** — 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

finish off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2628/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָסַל: vb. finish off, consume [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2628/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. finish off, consume (Aramaic חֲסַל come to an end, Aph. bring to an end)— Impf. יַחְסְלֶנּוּ הָאַרְבֶּה Dt 28:38 of locusts destroying crops.

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

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.38/#tree)

זֶ֥רַע רַ֖ב תּוֹצִ֣יא הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וּמְעַ֣ט תֶּאֱסֹ֔ף כִּ֥י יַחְסְלֶ֖נּוּ הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* seed much you.will.take.out the field and little you.will.gather (dm) it will.consume.it the locust\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2628.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2628/): 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).