פָּשָׂה
pâsâh · paw-saw'
to spread
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to spread
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: spread.
Letters
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- 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 consume, to destroy › to reveal, behold
To speak, the word that works to consume, to destroy that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פָּשָׂה 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
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- spread4 · 18%
- be spread4 · 18%
- abroad3 · 14%
- be not spread3 · 14%
- in his place, and spread2 · 9%
- spread much1 · 5%
- spreadeth1 · 5%
- and if it spread much1 · 5%
- and if it be spread much1 · 5%
- much1 · 5%
- hath not spread1 · 5%
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.