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title: חָשַׁל — shatter · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָשַׁל (2826), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: shatter. BDB 1906: vb. shatter. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָשַׁל

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«חָשַׁל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shatter** — 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:** 2826 · **BDB:** חָשַׁל

### Glosses

who.were\].straggling (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shatter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2826/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. shatter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2826/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shatter (Biblical Aramaic חֲשַׁל shatter; NH Pi., ‖ משׁבר; Syriac ܚܫܠ forge a metal, Arabic حَسَلَ drive cattle violently; Assyrian ḫašâlu, shatter, destroy ZimBP 12 DlPr 42)— Pt. fig. כָּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִים Dt 25:18 all the shattered ones, i.e. those broken down, worn out, sq. וְאַתָּה עָיֵף וְיָגֵעַ others think = חלשׁ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָשַׁל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2826/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 25:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.18/)

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אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָֽרְךָ֜ בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ וַיְזַנֵּ֤ב בְּךָ֙ כָּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִ֣ים אַֽחַרֶ֔יךָוְאַתָּ֖ה עָיֵ֣ף וְיָגֵ֑עַ וְלֹ֥א יָרֵ֖א אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (cmp) it met.you on the way and it.attacked.in.the.rear among you all \[those who.were\].straggling behind you and you \[were\].exhausted and weary and not it.feared God

*JPS 1917:* how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

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