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# פָּסֵחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6454

**Paseah** — used 4 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

Paseah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6454/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּסֵחַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6454/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (limper);— in Judah 1 Ch 4:12, Βεσσηε, Φεσση, etc. head of post-ex. family Ezr 2:49 = Ne 7:51, Φισον, etc., 𝔊L Φασσα. father of wall-builder Ne 3:6, Φασεκ, Φεσσε.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Paseah (3); Paseah (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.49/#tree)

בְּנֵי־עֻזָּ֥א בְנֵי־פָסֵ֖חַ בְּנֵ֥י בֵסָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Uzzah the.descendants of.Paseah the.descendants of.Besai

*JPS 1917:* the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai;

[Nehemiah 7:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.51/#tree)

בְּנֵי־גַזָּ֥ם בְּנֵי־עֻזָּ֖א בְּנֵ֥י פָסֵֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Gazzam the.descendants of.Uzzah the.descendants of.Paseah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6454.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6454/): 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).