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# חַסְפַּס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2636

**scaled 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

scaled off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2636/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵסְפַּס: vb. (scaled off) scale-like [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2636/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pt. pass. (scaled off) scale-like (appar. redupl. from חסף for חספסף, v. Ew§ 158 c Ol§§ 214, 276 Ges§ 55, 6 Sta§ 291; Kö i, 250 thinks euphon. for מְחֻסְפָּף; to be comp. are Arabic خَشِفَ, have scab, itch (Frey; but ش = ס?); Aramaic חַסְפָּא potsherd, חַסְפְּנִיתָא scale (of fish), scurf; Ethiopic ኀሠፈ scabiosus fuit Di 587 and Ex 16:14)—hence מְחֻסְפָּס scaled off, scale-like, as 𝔖 𝔗 Thes RobGes MV SS VB;—of the manna דַּק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּק כַּכְּפֹר Ex 16:14 a fine, scalelike thing, fine as the hoar-frost.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flake-like (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 16:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.14/#tree)

וַתַּ֖עַל שִׁכְבַ֣ת הַטָּ֑ל וְהִנֵּ֞ה עַל־פְּנֵ֤י הַמִּדְבָּר֙ דַּ֣ק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּ֥ק כַּכְּפֹ֖ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.went.up the.layer of.(the) dew and there! \[was\].on the.surface of the.wilderness thin.\[stuff\] flake-like thin.\[stuff\] like (the) hoar-frost on the ground

*JPS 1917:* And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2636/): 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).