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# פָּחַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6348

**be wanton** — 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

be wanton [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6348/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּחַז: vb. wanton, reckless [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6348/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be wanton, reckless (NH id. (rare); Arabic فَخَزَ be haughty, boastful, reckless; 𝔗 פְּחַז, Syriac ܦܚܶܙ be lascivious, in der. spec. and deriv.);— Pt. אֲנָשִׁים רֵיקִים וּפֹהֲזִים Ju 9:4; of prophets Zp 3:4 extravagant (‖ אַנְשֵׁי בֹּגְדוֹת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: \[are\] insolent (1); undisciplined (1).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.4/#tree)

נְבִיאֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽחֲזִ֔ים אַנְשֵׁ֖י בֹּֽגְד֑וֹת כֹּהֲנֶ֙יהָ֙ חִלְּלוּ־קֹ֔דֶשׁ חָמְס֖וּ תּוֹרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* prophets its \[are\].insolent men of.treacheri(es) priests its they.profane \[the\].sanctuary they.treat.violently \[the\].law

*JPS 1917:* Her prophets are wanton and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned that which is holy, they have done violence to the law.

[Judges 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.4/#tree)

וַיִּתְּנוּ־לוֹ֙ שִׁבְעִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף מִבֵּ֖יתּבַ֣עַל בְּרִ֑יתבַ֣עַל בְּרִ֑ית וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֨ר בָּהֶ֜ם אֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְ אֲנָשִׁ֤ים רֵיקִים֙ וּפֹ֣חֲזִ֔ים וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ אַחֲרָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.gave to him seventy silver from the.house of Baal-Berith and he.hired for them Abimelech men worthless and undisciplined and they.went after him

*JPS 1917:* And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6348.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6348/): 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).