Lexicon pacach: halt Original Word: פָּסַחPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pacach Phonetic Spelling: (paw-sakh') Short Definition: halt Brown-Driver-Briggs I. מָּסַח verb pass or spring over; — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳פ Exodus 12:27, ׳וּפ consecutive V:23 (J); 1 singular וּפָסַחְתִּ֫י Exodus 12:13 (P), all with עַל, of ׳י passing over (sparing) houses of Israel; Infinitive absolute מָּסוֺחַ Isaiah 31:5 a passing over (SC. עַליְֿרוּשָׁלַםִ). II. [מָּסַח] verb limp (Thes below I. ׳פ but dubious; Arabic  is dislocate; according to Gerber73 II. ׳פ is denominative from מִּסֵּחַ [and this below I. ׳פ?]); — Qal Participle plural מֹּסְחִים עַלשְֿׁתֵּי הַסְּעַמִּים 1 Kings 18:21 figurative (see [ סְעִמָּה]). Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּמֹּל וַיִּמָּסֵחַ 2 Samuel 4:4 and he fell and was made limping (lame). Pi`el Imperfect3masculine plural וַיְפַסְּחוּ עַלהַֿמִּזְבֵּחַ 1 Kings 18:26 they went limping (along by the altar), i.e. probably in their dance, see Kit PietschmPhön. 220 (Gr ויפסעו [ = וַיִּפְשְׂעוּ] stepped).
Strong's halt, become lame, leap, pass over A primitive root; to hop, i.e. (figuratively) skip over (or spare); by implication, to hesitate; also (literally) to limp, to dance -- halt, become lame, leap, pass over. |
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