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# פֶּצַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6482

**bruise** — used 8 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

bruise [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6482/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫צַע: n.m. bruise wound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6482/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Pr 27:6 bruise wound;—abs. פ׳ Ex 21:25; Is 1:6 (fig.), Pr 20:30, פָּ֑צַע Ex 21:25; sf. פִּצְעִי Gn 4:23; pl. פְּצָעִים Pr 23:29; fig. also cstr. פִּצְעֵי 27:6 and sf. פְּצָעַי Jb 9:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bruise (3); bruises (2); \[the\] bruises (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.6/#tree)

נֶ֭אֱמָנִים פִּצְעֵ֣י אוֹהֵ֑ב וְ֝נַעְתָּר֗וֹת נְשִׁיק֥וֹת שׂוֹנֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].reliable \[the\].bruises of.\[one.who\].loves and.\[are\] abundant \[the\].kisses of.\[one.who\].hates

*JPS 1917:* Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are importunate.

[Exodus 21:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.25/#tree)

כְּוִיָּה֙ תַּ֣חַת כְּוִיָּ֔ה פֶּ֖צַע תַּ֣חַת פָּ֑צַע חַבּוּרָ֕ה תַּ֖חַת חַבּוּרָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* burning in.place.of burning bruise in.place.of bruise wound in.place.of wound

*JPS 1917:* burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6482.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6482/): 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).