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# רָצַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7527

**bore** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bore [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7527/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָצַע: vb. bore, pierce [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7527/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bore, pierce (NH = BH; Arabic رَصَعَ stab violently);— Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְר׳ Ex 21:6 (E) he shall pierce his ear (acc., ב instr.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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 will pierce (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 21:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.6/#tree)

וְהִגִּישׁ֤וֹ אֲדֹנָיו֙ אֶל־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְהִגִּישׁוֹ֙ אֶל־הַדֶּ֔לֶת א֖וֹ אֶל־הַמְּזוּזָ֑ה וְרָצַ֨ע אֲדֹנָ֤יו אֶת־אָזְנוֹ֙ בַּמַּרְצֵ֔עַ וַעֲבָד֖וֹ לְעֹלָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and he will.bring.him.near master(s) his to (the) God and he will.bring.him.near to the door or to the doorpost and he.will.pierce master(s) his (et) ear his with the awl and he will.serve.him forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7527/): 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).