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# פָּצַץ

Biblical Hebrew

**break** — 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

break [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּצַץ: vb. break Pōʿ. Hithpōʿ. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. break (Arabic فَضَّ break, break asunder; Nab. פצץ break asunder; Syriac ܦܰܥ crush);—Pōʿ. Impf. 3 ms. יְפֹצֵץ סָ֑לַע Je 23:29 a hammer which shatters rock. Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיְפַצְפְּצֵנִי Jb 16:12 he \[God\] dashed me in pieces (fig.) Hithpōʿ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 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: \[which\] it shatters (1); he (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 23:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.29/#tree)

הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֧ה דְבָרִ֛י כָּאֵ֖שׁ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ יְפֹ֥צֵֽץ סָֽלַע׃ס

*Word for word:* ? not thus word \[is\].my like (the) fire the.utterance of.Yahweh and like a.hammer \[which\].it.shatters rock

*JPS 1917:* Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

[Job 16:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.12/#tree)

שָׁ֘לֵ֤ו הָיִ֨יתִי ׀ וַֽיְפַרְפְּרֵ֗נִי וְאָחַ֣ז בְּ֭עָרְפִּי וַֽיְפַצְפְּצֵ֑נִי וַיְקִימֵ֥נִי ל֝֗וֹ לְמַטָּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* at.ease I.was and he smashed.me and he.took.hold on neck my and he shattered.me and he set.me.up for himself to a.target

*JPS 1917:* I was at ease, and He broke me asunder; yea, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces; He hath also set me up for His mark.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5e6_5b7_5e5/): 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).