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# פַּחַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6349

**wantonness** — 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

wantonness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6349/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּ֫חַז: wantonness, recklessness, unbridled license [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6349/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wantonness, recklessness, unbridled license;—Gn 49:4, abstr. for concr. (+ כַּמַּיִםִ like \[boiling, or overflowing\] water).

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, 1 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: destructiveness (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.4/#tree)

פַּ֤חַז כַּמַּ֙יִם֙ אַל־תּוֹתַ֔ר כִּ֥י עָלִ֖יתָ מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אָבִ֑יךָ אָ֥ז חִלַּ֖לְתָּ יְצוּעִ֥י עָלָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* destructiveness like (the) water do.not excel (dm) you.went.up the.bed(s) your.father your then you.profaned.\[it\] bed my he.went.up

*JPS 1917:* Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6349.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6349/): 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).