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title: חַסְפַּס — scaled off · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַסְפַּס (2636), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: scaled off. BDB 1906: vb. (scaled off) scale-like. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַסְפַּס

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«חַסְפַּס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **scaled off** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2636 · **BDB:** חֵסְפַּס

### Glosses

flake-like (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

scaled off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2636/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. (scaled off) scale-like [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2636/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pt. pass. (scaled off) scale-like (appar. redupl. from חסף for חספסף, v. Ew§ 158 c Ol§§ 214, 276 Ges§ 55, 6 Sta§ 291; Kö i, 250 thinks euphon. for מְחֻסְפָּף; to be comp. are Arabic خَشِفَ, have scab, itch (Frey; but ش = ס?); Aramaic חַסְפָּא potsherd, חַסְפְּנִיתָא scale (of fish), scurf; Ethiopic ኀሠፈ scabiosus fuit Di 587 and Ex 16:14)—hence מְחֻסְפָּס scaled off, scale-like, as 𝔖 𝔗 Thes RobGes MV SS VB;—of the manna דַּק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּק כַּכְּפֹר Ex 16:14 a fine, scalelike thing, fine as the hoar-frost.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, 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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַסְפַּס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2636/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 16:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.14/)

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וַתַּ֖עַל שִׁכְבַ֣ת הַטָּ֑ל וְהִנֵּ֞ה עַל־פְּנֵ֤י הַמִּדְבָּר֙ דַּ֣ק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּ֥ק כַּכְּפֹ֖ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.went.up the.layer of.(the) dew and there! \[was\].on the.surface of the.wilderness thin.\[stuff\] flake-like thin.\[stuff\] like (the) hoar-frost on the ground

*JPS 1917:* And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.

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