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# חָצָץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2687

**gravel** — 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

gravel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2687/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָצָץ: gravel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2687/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] gravel (as divided, comminuted; Aramaic חֲצִיצָא, ܚܨܳܨܳܐ )—only abs. ח׳ Pr 20:17; La 3:16 \[חֲצָצֶיךָ ψ 77:18 v. חֵץ\].—יִמָּלֵּא־פִיהוּ ח׳ Pr 20:17 fig. of a liar; וַיַּגְרֵס בח׳ שִׁנָּ֑י La 3:16 and he hath crushed my teeth with gravel-stones, fig. of י׳’s dealings with sufferer.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gravel (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 20:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.17/#tree)

עָרֵ֣ב לָ֭אִישׁ לֶ֣חֶם שָׁ֑קֶר וְ֝אַחַ֗ר יִמָּֽלֵא־פִ֥יהוּ חָצָֽץ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].sweet to (the) person food of.falsehood and after it.will.be.filled mouth his gravel

*JPS 1917:* Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

[Lamentations 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.16/#tree)

וַיַּגְרֵ֤ס בֶּֽחָצָץ֙ שִׁנָּ֔י הִכְפִּישַׁ֖נִי בָּאֵֽפֶר׃

*Word for word:* and he.has.broken with (the) gravel teeth my he has.made.me.cower in (the) ash\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2687.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2687/): 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).