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# חָצַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2686

**divide** — used 3 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

divide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2686/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָצַץ: vb. divide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2686/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. divide (NH make a partition; Assyrian ḫaṣâṣu, cut in two, ZimBP 24 n.; Ethiopic ሐጸጸ: curtail, diminish)— Pt. חֹצֵץ intr. Pr 30:27 of locusts ויצא ח׳ כלו; i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms. Pt. מְחַצְצִים v. II. חצץ. Pf. מספר חדשׁיו חֻצָּ֑צוּ Jb 21:21 the number of his months, they have been cut in two (fig. for curtailed).

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: dividing (1); of \[those who\] divide (1); they have been cut off (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.27/#tree)

מֶ֭לֶךְ אֵ֣ין לָאַרְבֶּ֑ה וַיֵּצֵ֖א חֹצֵ֣ץ כֻּלּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.king there.\[is\].not for the locust and it.went.out dividing of.it all

*JPS 1917:* The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

[Job 21:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.21/#tree)

כִּ֤י מַה־חֶפְצ֣וֹ בְּבֵית֣וֹ אַחֲרָ֑יו וּמִסְפַּ֖ר חֳדָשָׁ֣יו חֻצָּֽצוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) what? pleasure \[is\].his in household his after him and the.number his.months his they.have.been.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2686/): 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).