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title: פָּצַם — split open · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּצַם (6480), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: split open. BDB 1906: vb. split open. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּצַם

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«פָּצַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **split open** — 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:** 6480 · **BDB:** פָּצַם

### Glosses

you (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

split open [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6480/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. split open [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6480/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. split open (Arabic فَصَمَ crack; 𝔗 פַּצֵּם Je 22:14, cut out, make, window);— Pf. 2 ms. sf. of earth, פְּצַמְתָּ֑הּ ψ 60:4 (subj. God).

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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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּצַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6480/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 60:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.4/)

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הִרְעַ֣שְׁתָּה אֶ֣רֶץ פְּצַמְתָּ֑הּ רְפָ֖ה שְׁבָרֶ֣יהָ כִי־מָֽטָה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.made.quake \[the\].land you have.split.it.open repair fractures its (dm) it.is.shaking

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast made the land to shake, Thou hast cleft it; heal the breaches thereof; for it tottereth.

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