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title: פָּצַר — push · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּצַר (6484), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: push. BDB 1906: vb. push, press. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּצַר

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«פָּצַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **push** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 6484 · **BDB:** פָּצַר

### Glosses

he.urged (4); they.urged (2); presumption (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

push [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6484/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. push, press [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6484/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. push, press (perhaps related, by transp., to Arabic فَرَضَ appoint, prescribe, Assyrian parṣu, command, cf. BaZMG xliii (1889), 188);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְצַר־ Gn 19:3 +, 3 mpl. וַיִּפְצְרוּ v 9 2 K 2:17;—push, press, upon (ב pers.) physically Gn 19:9; = urge v 3 33:11 Ju 19:7 2 K 2:17, + inf. 5:16; read also prob. וַיִּפְצַר־בּוֹ 2 S 13:25, 27 2 K 5:23 (for וַיִּפְרָץ־), וַיִּפְצְרוּ־בוֹ 1 S 28:23 (for וַיִּפְרְצוּ־), Tanchum (cf. The), Weir in Dr 1 S 28:23 Kitid. Bu HPS Löhr. Inf. abs. הַפְצַ֑ר 1 S 15:23 to display pushing (i.e. arrogance, presumption; ‖ מֶ֔רִי; cf. Dr).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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 «פָּצַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6484/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 19:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.19.7/)

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וַיָּ֥קָם הָאִ֖ישׁ לָלֶ֑כֶת וַיִּפְצַר־בּוֹ֙ חֹתְנ֔וֹ וַיָּ֖שָׁב וַיָּ֥לֶן שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and he.arose the man to go and he.urged (in) him father-in-law his and he.returned and he.spent.the.night there

*JPS 1917:* And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.

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[1 Samuel 15:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.23/)

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כִּ֤י חַטַּאת־קֶ֙סֶם֙ מֶ֔רִי וְאָ֥וֶן וּתְרָפִ֖ים הַפְצַ֑ר יַ֗עַן מָאַ֙סְתָּ֙ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֖ מִמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is.the\].sin of.divination rebellion and.\[is\] wickedness and teraphim presumption because you.have.rejected (et) the.word of.Yahweh and he has.rejected.you from king

*JPS 1917:* For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king.'

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