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title: פָּסַס — disappear · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּסַס (6461), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: disappear. BDB 1906: vb. disappear, vanish. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּסַס

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«פָּסַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **disappear** — 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:** 6461 · **BDB:** פָּסַס

### Glosses

they.have.vanished (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

disappear [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6461/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. disappear, vanish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6461/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. disappear, vanish (si vera l., cf. Assyrian pasâsu, do away, blot out (especially sins));— Pf. 3 pl. פַּסּוּ מִן ψ 12:2 the faithful have vanished (Che Dr) from (among) … men; LagProph. Chald. xlvi Gr We Du read אָֽפְסוּ (Is 16:4).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 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 «פָּסַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6461/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.2/)

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הוֹשִׁ֣יעָה יְ֭הוָה כִּי־גָמַ֣ר חָסִ֑יד כִּי־פַ֥סּוּ אֱ֝מוּנִ֗ים מִבְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* save O.Yahweh (dm) he.has.come.to.an.end \[the\].faithful (dm) they.have.vanished faithful.\[people\] from.\[the\] children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

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