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# נָפַץ

Biblical Hebrew

**disperse** — 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

disperse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b7_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָפַץ²: vb. disperse, be scattered [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b7_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. disperse, be scattered (often taken as secondary √ from Niph. of פוץ, yet cf. NH נפץ, Qal (Pt.), Pi., scatter; Syriac ܢܦܰܨ pour out, throw down, 𝔗 נְפַץ; Arabic نَفَضَ shake (irreg. correspondence of sibilants cf. Nö l.c.), Ethiopic ነፍጸ: dissipari, aufugere Di 713);— Pf. 3 ms. נ׳ הָעָם מֵעָלַי 1 S 13:11 the people were scattered from me; 3 fs. נָֽפְצָה כָל־הָאָרֶץ Gn 9:19 (J) thence dispersed all (the population of) the earth; 3 pl. נָֽפְצוּ גּוֹיִם Is 33:3 nations were scattered; Pt. pass. fpl. cstr. נְפֻצוֹת יְהוּדָה Is 11:12 the dispersed of Judah (‖ נִדְחֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל)—v. I. \[פּוּץ\] for 2 S 18:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it dispersed (1); it was scattered (1); they were scattered (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 33:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.3/#tree)

מִקּ֣וֹל הָמ֔וֹן נָדְד֖וּ עַמִּ֑ים מֵר֣וֹמְמֻתֶ֔ךָ נָפְצ֖וּ גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] sound of.tumult they.flee peoples from arising your they.were.scattered nations

*JPS 1917:* At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of Thyself the nations are scattered.

[Genesis 9:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.19/#tree)

שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵי־נֹ֑חַ וּמֵאֵ֖לֶּה נָֽפְצָ֥ה כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* three these \[were\].the.sons of.Noah and from these it.dispersed all the earth

*JPS 1917:* These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_5b7_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e4_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).