חָמַץ

Biblical Hebrew

be ruthless — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

be ruthless tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חמץ²: vb. be tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. be ruthless (dub. √; perhaps by-form of חמם; perhaps error for it; identif. by most with I. חמץ, be sour, hence sharp, violent, but connexion improb.)—only Pt. act. מִכַּף מְעַוּל וְחוֹמֵץ ψ 71:4 from the hand of the unjust and ruthless (‖ מִיַּד רָשָׁע).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: [one who is] ruthless (1).

In the verses

Psalms 71:4 · tree →

אֱ‍ֽלֹהַ֗י פַּ֭לְּטֵנִי מִיַּ֣ד רָשָׁ֑ע מִכַּ֖ף מְעַוֵּ֣ל וְחוֹמֵץ׃

Word for word: my.God my deliver me from.[the] hand of.[the].wicked from.[the] palm of.[one.who].acts.unjustly and [one.who.is].ruthless

JPS 1917: O my God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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