פּוּג
to faint
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘of hand’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 2 times (50%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6313 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
Habakkuk 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פוג — transliterated pûwg — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to faint.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Psalms (50% of all occurrences). Debuting at Genesis 45:26, it then recurs through the corpus. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 2 stems, among them Qal and Niphal. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6313 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 25%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ceased 1×, Fainted 1×, I am feeble 1×
- American Standard Version: Fainted 1×, I am faint 1×, Is slacked 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Did not grow weary 1×, I am numb 1×, Is paralyzed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: But 1×, Did 1×, I am numb 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6313 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6313 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6313 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6313 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- of hand, i.e drop helpless
Niphal
- . I am benumbed and crushed
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
[ פּוּג ] vb. grow numb
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פּוּג
- to evaporate, become faint; to escape. Tosef. Sabb. III (IV), 5 שתָּפוּג צינתן sufficient time for the cold in them to escape; Sabb. 40ᵇ שתפוג Ms. M. (ed. שתָּפִיג); Y. ib. III, 6ᵇ top שתפיג. Yoma 34ᵇ שתפוג Ms. M. (ed. שתפיג). Ker. 6ᵇ כדי שלא תפוג ריחה that its fragrance may not escape. Y. Bets. I, 60ᵈ top שטעמן פָּג their flavor would escape; a. fr.
- 1. same, v. supra. Erub. 64 same, v. supra. Erub. 64ᵇ עד שיָפִיג יינינו until the wine we drank has escaped (the effect of the wine is overcome). until the wine we drank has escaped (the effect of the wine is overcome).
- 2. to lose taste, intensity; to cause to escape; to cool off; to mitigate. Pes. 41ᵃ מים שאין מְפִיגִין טעמן water, which does not give up its taste (to the substance boiled in it) שאר משקין שמפיגין וכ׳ other liquids, which do communicate their taste. Bets. 14ᵃ כל התבלין מפיגין טעמן … מְפִיגָה וכ׳ all spices lose their taste (when pounded a day before), but salt does not &c. Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXIX ה׳ את חמתו וכ׳ let out his anger on wood and stone. Snh. 22ᵇ דרך … מפיגין את היין a walk of a mile, or a little sleep cause the wine to escape (counteract the effect of the wine); Erub. l. c. Ib. שדרך מפיגה וכ׳ that walking counteracts &c. B. Bath. 10ᵃ יין מְפִיגוֹ, v. פַּחַד.—Yoma I, 7 והָפֵג אחת וכ׳ and drive out (thy drowsiness, cool thy feet) &c., v. אֶחָד. Ib. 75ᵇ דברים … מן מְפִיגָן the manna counteracted the effect of such food as traders sold them; a. e.
פּוּג ²
- 1. to evaporate, faint &c. Targ. Ps. XXXVIII, 9 פָּגִית (ed. Lag. פַּגְיִית, fr. פגי; h. text נפוגתי). Targ. Esth. II, 1 פג ed. Lag. (Var. פח). Targ. Hab. I, 4 פָּגַת (Levita פֵּיגַת, read: פָּיְגַת); a. e.—Part. פָּיֵג, פָּיֵיג; f. פָּיְגָא, פָּיְגַת; pl. פָּיְגָן. Targ. O. Gen. XLV, 26.—Y. Pes. III, 30ᵃ top מן דטלא פייגא מנהון (not מה) after the dew upon them has evaporated. Meg. 25ᵇ דלמא פייגא דעתייהו וכ׳ lest the minds of the congregation be fainting (lose courage, on hearing the curses); a. e. e.g. Habakkuk 1:4
- 2. to weaken, mitigate. Part. פָּאֵיג. Targ. Lam. III, 49.
- to cause relaxation; to slacken. Ib. II, 18. Targ. Prov. XIV, 30 מפייג ed. Lag. (oth. ed. מפליג).
- to let (the wine) escape. Targ. I Sam. I, 14.
- to seek relaxation from anger, trouble &c., seek diversion, sport. Lev. R. s. 27 לא אתא אלא לאתפוגגה וכ׳ he came only to sport with his children (not to argue with them seriously); ib. לא אתא אלא מתפגג׳ (read: מִתְפּוֹגְגָא); Yalk. Mic. 554 למתפונגא (corr. acc.); Num. R. s. 10; Cant. R. to V, 16 (not להתפ׳); Tanḥ. Emor 10. Ib. [read:] לא אתת דא אלא למִתְפַּגְּיָיא עם ברה this woman has come to court merely to have some sport with her son.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H6313 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/יָּ֣פָג | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 45:26 | 1 |
| נְפוּג֣וֹתִי | Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Psalms 38:8 | 1 |
| תָפ֑וּג | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Psalms 77:2 | 1 |
| תָּפ֣וּג | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Habakkuk 1:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6313, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
