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# פִּסֵּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6455

**lame** — used 14 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

lame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6455/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּסֵּחַ: adj. lame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6455/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. lame;—abs. פ׳ 2 S 9:13 +; pl. פִּסְחִים 5:6 +;—as attrib. Lv 21:18 (+ עִוֵּר); pred. 2 S 19:27, פ׳ שְׁתֵּי רַגְלָיו 9:13 lame as to both his feet; cf. also (of animal) Dt 15:21 (+ עִוֵּר); as subst. 2 S 5:6, 8;(×2) Je 31:8; Mal 1:8, 13; Jb 29:15 (all + עִוֵּר), also Is 33:23; 35:6; Pr 26:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lame (4); a lame \[person\] (3); \[people\] (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.7/#tree)

דַּלְי֣וּ שֹׁ֭קַיִם מִפִּסֵּ֑חַ וּ֝מָשָׁ֗ל בְּפִ֣י כְסִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.hang.down legs from a.lame.\[person\] and a.proverb in.\[the\] mouth of.fools

*JPS 1917:* The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

[Job 29:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.15/#tree)

עֵינַ֣יִם הָ֭יִיתִי לַֽעִוֵּ֑ר וְרַגְלַ֖יִם לַפִּסֵּ֣חַ אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* eyes I.was to the blind and.\[was\] feet to the lame I

*JPS 1917:* I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6455.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6455/): 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).