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title: פַּחַז — wantonness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פַּחַז (6349), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: wantonness. BDB 1906: wantonness, recklessness, unbridled license. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פַּחַז

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«פַּחַז» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wantonness** — 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:** 6349 · **BDB:** פַּ֫חַז

### Glosses

destructiveness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wantonness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6349/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

wantonness, recklessness, unbridled license [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6349/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wantonness, recklessness, unbridled license;—Gn 49:4, abstr. for concr. (+ כַּמַּיִםִ like \[boiling, or overflowing\] water).

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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 (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 «פַּחַז» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6349/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 49:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.4/)

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פַּ֤חַז כַּמַּ֙יִם֙ אַל־תּוֹתַ֔ר כִּ֥י עָלִ֖יתָ מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אָבִ֑יךָ אָ֥ז חִלַּ֖לְתָּ יְצוּעִ֥י עָלָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* destructiveness like (the) water do.not excel (dm) you.went.up the.bed(s) your.father your then you.profaned.\[it\] bed my he.went.up

*JPS 1917:* Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch.

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