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title: בָּצֵק — swell · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּצֵק (1216), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: swell. BDB 1906: vb. swell. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּצֵק

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«בָּצֵק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swell** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1216 · **BDB:** בָּצֵק

### Glosses

it.swelled (1); they.swelled (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

swell [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1216/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. swell [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1216/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swell— Pf. 3 fs. בָּצֵ֑קָה Dt 8:4; 3 pl. בָּצֵ֑קוּ Ne 9:21;—swell, or receive swellings, blisters, of foot, Di Dt 8:4, Ry Ne 9:21.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּצֵק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1216/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.4/)

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שִׂמְלָ֨תְךָ֜ לֹ֤א בָֽלְתָה֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יךָ וְרַגְלְךָ֖ לֹ֣א בָצֵ֑קָה זֶ֖ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* clothing your not it.wore.out from on you and foot your not it.swelled this forty year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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[Nehemiah 9:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.21/)

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וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה כִּלְכַּלְתָּ֥ם בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר לֹ֣א חָסֵ֑רוּ שַׂלְמֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ לֹ֣א בָל֔וּ וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֥א בָצֵֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* and forty year\[s\] you sustained.them in the wilderness not they.were.lacking clothes their not they.wore.out and feet their not they.swelled

*JPS 1917:* Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

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