Hebrew adjective · H6455
פִּסֵּחַ
pisseachpis-say'-akh
lame
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: piççêach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6455is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6455
lame
The King James renders it: lame.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pisseach is rendered "lame". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 21:18No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
Leviticus 21:18פִסֵּ֔חַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fourteen uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lame5
- a lame2
- the lame2
- and a lame1
- and lame1
- and the lame1
- from a lame1
- to the lame1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פִּסָּה | pissah | abundance | Uses1 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּפִסֵּ֔חַ2
- פִסֵּ֖חַ2
- הַפִּסֵּ֙חַ֙1
- הַפִּסְחִים֙1
- וְהַפִּסְחִים֙1
- לַפִּסֵּ֣חַ1
- מִפִּסֵּ֑חַ1
- פִסֵּ֔חַ1
- פִּסֵּ֙חַ֙1
- פִּסֵּ֔חַ1
- פִּסֵּ֥חַ1
- פִּסְחִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular6HAamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular2HC/Aamsa
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Td/Aampa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular1HRd/Aamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural1HTd/Aampa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa
Leviticus
one use
No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
- פִסֵּ֔חַfiseachadjective · masculine singulartagged: lame
Deuteronomy
one use
But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
- פִּסֵּ֙חַ֙piseachadjective · masculine singulartagged: lame
2 Samuel
five uses
Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”
- וְהַפִּסְחִים֙vehapischimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and the lame
On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”
- הַפִּסְחִים֙hapischimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the lame
- וּפִסֵּ֔חַufiseachconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a lame
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet.
- פִסֵּ֖חַpiseachadjective · masculine singulartagged: lame
“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
- פִסֵּ֖חַfiseachadjective · masculine singulartagged: lame
Job
one use
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
- לַפִּסֵּ֣חַlapiseachpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the lame
Proverbs
one use
Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
- מִפִּסֵּ֑חַmipiseachpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: from a lame
Isaiah
two uses
Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
- פִּסְחִ֖יםpischimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: lame
Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- פִּסֵּ֔חַpiseachadjective · masculine singulartagged: a lame
Jeremiah
one use
Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!
- וּפִסֵּ֔חַufiseachconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and lame
Malachi
two uses
When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
- פִּסֵּ֥חַpiseachadjective · masculine singulartagged: a lame
You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.
- הַפִּסֵּ֙חַ֙hapiseachthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the lame
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.