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title: פָּצַע — bruise · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּצַע (6481), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: bruise. BDB 1906: vb. bruise, wound by bruising. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּצַע

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«פָּצַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bruise** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6481 · **BDB:** פָּצַע

### Glosses

\[one.who.is\].wounded (1); they (1); wounding (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bruise [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6481/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bruise, wound by bruising [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6481/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bruise, wound by bruising (NH split, bruise; Arabic فَصَعَ squeeze a ripe date, rub; Aramaic פְּצַע split);— Pf. 3 pl. sf. הִכּוּנִי פְצָעוּנִי Ct 5:7; Inf. abs. הַכֵּה וּפָצֹעַ 1 K 20:37 a smiting and a bruising (him); Pt. pass. cstr. פְּצוּעַ־דַּכָּה Dt 23:2 one wounded by crushing.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 «פָּצַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6481/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 23:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.2/)

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לֹֽא־יָבֹ֧א פְצֽוּעַ־דַּכָּ֛א וּכְר֥וּת שָׁפְכָ֖ה בִּקְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* not he.will.go \[one.who.is\].wounded of.crushing and \[one.who.is\].cut.off of.penis in the.assembly of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD.

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[1 Kings 20:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.37/)

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וַיִּמְצָא֙ אִ֣ישׁ אַחֵ֔ר וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הַכֵּ֣ינִי נָ֑א וַיַּכֵּ֥הוּ הָאִ֖ישׁ הַכֵּ֥ה וּפָצֹֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.found a.man another and he.said strike me please and he struck.him the man striking and wounding

*JPS 1917:* Then he found another man, and said: 'Smite me, I pray thee.' And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.

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