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# פָּצַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6478

**peel** — 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

peel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6478/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּצַל: vb. peel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6478/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. peel (NH Pi. split, divide; so Arabic فَصَلَ J.Aram. (Talm.) פְּצַל, Syriac ܦܨܰܠ; akin to בצל q.v.);—Pf. 3 ms. פִּצֵּל Gn 30:38 (obj. rods); Impf. 3 ms. וַיְפַצֵּל v 37 (c. acc. cogn.).

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he had stripped (1); he stripped (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.37/#tree)

וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ יַעֲקֹ֗ב מַקַּ֥ל לִבְנֶ֛ה לַ֖ח וְל֣וּז וְעֶרְמ֑וֹןוַיְפַצֵּ֤ל בָּהֵן֙ פְּצָל֣וֹת לְבָנ֔וֹת מַחְשֹׂף֙ הַלָּבָ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־הַמַּקְלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.took for himself Jacob branch\[es\] of.poplar fresh and almond and plane.tree and he.stripped on them strips white the.peeling of the.white.\[wood\] which \[was\].on the branches

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods.

[Genesis 30:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.38/#tree)

וַיַּצֵּ֗ג אֶת־הַמַּקְלוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּצֵּ֔ל בָּרֳהָטִ֖ים בְּשִֽׁקֲת֣וֹת הַמָּ֑יִם אֲשֶׁר֩ תָּבֹ֨אןָ הַצֹּ֤אן לִשְׁתּוֹת֙ לְנֹ֣כַח הַצֹּ֔אן וַיֵּחַ֖מְנָה בְּבֹאָ֥ן לִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.placed (et) the branches which he.had.stripped in the.drinking troughs in the.watering.channels of.(the) water which they.came the flock to drink to the.front.of the flock and they.were.in.heat when came they to drink

*JPS 1917:* And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6478.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6478/): 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).