פָּצָה
pâtsâh · paw-tsaw'
to rend, i.e. open (especially the mouth)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to rend, i.e. open (especially the mouth)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: deliver, gape, open, rid, utter.
Letters
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › to pursue the straight path › to reveal, behold
To speak, the word that works to pursue the straight path that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פָּצָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- open3 · 20%
- rid2 · 13%
- have opened2 · 13%
- which hath opened1 · 7%
- opened1 · 7%
- me: for i have opened1 · 7%
- if thou hast opened1 · 7%
- they gaped1 · 7%
- have uttered1 · 7%
- who delivereth1 · 7%
- or opened1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.