חַסְפַּס
Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2636
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
scaled off tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
חֵסְפַּס: vb. (scaled off) scale-like tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. only Pt. pass. (scaled off) scale-like (appar. redupl. from חסף for חספסף, v. Ew§ 158 c Ol§§ 214, 276 Ges§ 55, 6 Sta§ 291; Kö i, 250 thinks euphon. for מְחֻסְפָּף; to be comp. are Arabic خَشِفَ, have scab, itch (Frey; but ش = ס?); Aramaic חַסְפָּא potsherd, חַסְפְּנִיתָא scale (of fish), scurf; Ethiopic ኀሠፈ scabiosus fuit Di 587 and Ex 16:14)—hence מְחֻסְפָּס scaled off, scale-like, as 𝔖 𝔗 Thes RobGes MV SS VB;—of the manna דַּק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּק כַּכְּפֹר Ex 16:14 a fine, scalelike thing, fine as the hoar-frost.
Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flake-like (1).
In the verses
וַתַּ֖עַל שִׁכְבַ֣ת הַטָּ֑ל וְהִנֵּ֞ה עַל־פְּנֵ֤י הַמִּדְבָּר֙ דַּ֣ק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּ֥ק כַּכְּפֹ֖ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Word for word: and it.went.up the.layer of.(the) dew and there! [was].on the.surface of the.wilderness thin.[stuff] flake-like thin.[stuff] like (the) hoar-frost on the ground
JPS 1917: And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.
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