פַּס
palm
also: flat, sole fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6446 appears in the Book of Genesis — 3 distinct verses. 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
- Genesis 37:3 פַּסִּֽים n c mp Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
- Genesis 37:23 הַ/פַּסִּ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
- Genesis 37:32 הַ/פַּסִּ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c mp They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
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.
פס (paç) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “palm.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 60% of its uses. Debuting at Genesis 37:3, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexical range runs to 2 senses — “palm” plus “flat” and “sole”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6446 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
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 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 40%
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: Many colours 3×, Divers colours 2×
- American Standard Version: Divers colors 2×, Many colors 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Many colors 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Multicolored 3×, Long 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6446 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6446 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6446 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6446 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- flat (of the hand or foot), palm, sole
- of the tunic reaching to palms and soles (figuratively)
Word origin
n.[m.] flat of hand or foot (palm, sole);—only כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים tunic reaching to palms and soles (v. כ׳) Gn 37:3, 23, 32; 2 S 13:18, 19 (cf. Dr).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פסס (pâçaç) (H6461) — to vanish.
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.
פָּס
- = אָפֵס, Pas, name of two Amoraim. Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵃ. Y. Yoma V, 43ᵃ bot.—Y. Kidd. III, 64ᵃ bot. (v. Fr. M’bo, p. 122ᵃ).
פַּס I
- , v. פְּסַס
פַּס II
- 1. strip, stripe.—Pl. פַּסִּים, פַּסִּין. Gen. R. s. 84 (ref. to Gen. XXXVII, 3 sq., a. Ps. LXVI, 5 sq.; v. עֲלִּילָה) why ‘did they hate him’? That (in the course of events it should come about that) שיקרע הים לפניהם פ׳ פ׳ the sea be rent before them in strips (ed. Wil. פ̇ס̇י̇ם̇ פס ים passim alludes to ‘strip of the sea’).—Esp. (cmp. פֶּרֶק) פס יד, palm, the hand from the wrist to the tip of the finger; פס רגל the foot to the ankle, interch. with פִּסַּת, פִּיסַּת (constr. of פִּסָּה). Ib. (expl. פסים, Gen. l. c.) שהיתה מגעת עד פס ידו the coat reached with its sleeves to his wrist; שהיתה … בפס ידו it was very fine and light, and could be (compressed and) hidden in his hand (cmp. מַלְמֵלָה). Meg. IV, 8 (24ᵇ) נתנה … על פס ידו וכ׳ if he placed the T’fillin on his forehead or on his palm. Yoma 87ᵃ (play on ה̇ת̇ר̇פ̇ס̇, Prov. VI, 3) [read:] אם ממון יש לו בידך ה̇ת̇ר לו פ̇ס̇ת יד וכ׳ if thou owest him (whom thou hast wronged) money, untie thy hand to him (pay him), if not (if thou hast otherwise wronged him), get several friends around him (to ask his pardon in their presence); B. Mets. 115ᵃ; B. Bath. 173ᵇ; Yalk. Prov. 938. Gen. R. s. 78 (play on מ̇ת̇ר̇פ̇ס בר̇צ̇י, Ps. LXIV, 31) מ̇ת̇יר̇ את הפ̇ס̇ ומ̇ת̇ר̇צ̇ה בכסף he (Edom-Rome) opens his hand (for bribery), and is appeased with silver; Ex. R. s. 35 מתרת את הפס וכ׳ she (Rome) opens &c.; Yalk. Ps. 800 שפושטין פסת יד … ואין עושין ר̇צ̇ון וכ׳ they stretch forth their hand to accept silver, and then do not what the givers desire; Pes. 118ᵇ שפושטין פסת יד וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שפושטין יד). Yoma 47ᵃ על פ׳ ידו up to his wrist, v. חָפָה; Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., ch. X, Par. 9 חופה את פס ידו וכ׳ he bends his hand (grabbing) in the pan &c. Ohol. I, 8 שלשים בפס הרגל thirty joints in the foot. Yalk. Sam. 143 חלילה … פ׳ יד ופ׳ רגל ועקב מגולין never were their wrists or their feet or their heels seen uncovered; Midr. Sam. ch. XXV (corr. acc.); a. fr. e.g. Genesis 37:3
- 2. partition, board, barrier. Erub. 5ᵃ אם יש שם פם ארבעה if a bar of four handbreadths is left or placed above the breach. Ib. 10ᵇ עושה פם גבוה עשרה וכ׳ he cuts a board ten handbreadths high and four cubits long &c.; a. fr.—Pl. as ab. Ib. II, 1 עושין פ׳ לביראות וכ׳ you must place partitions around watering stations in the shape of four cornerpieces &c., v. דְּיוֹמַד. Ib. 11ᵃ פַּסֵּי ביראות the partitions of watering stations; a. fr.—[Maasr. I, 7, v. פַּץ.]
- 3. pl. (v. ) tax; פַּסֵּי העיר town tax (used for maintaining the safety of the town). Tosef. Peah IV, 9 לפ׳ העיר לשנים וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (ed. לעניי, corr. acc.) in order to be assessed for the town tax one must have been a resident for twelve months; B. Bath. 8ᵃ; Y. Peah VIII, 21ᵃ bot. לפסין ולצדקות for the town tax and for the charities, expl. for the salaries of public school teachers; Y. B. Bath. I, beg. 12ᵈ לפסים ולזימיות for town tax and town fines.
פַּס
- 1. strip, stripe.—Pl. פַּסֵּי. Targ. O. Gen. XXXVII, 3; 23 (ed. Berl. פָּסֵי, פַּסֵי). Targ. II Sam. XIII, 18 (ed. Wil. פַּסֵי).
- 2. פ׳ ידא palm; פס רגלא foot, v. פִּיסְּתָא.
- 3. piece, portion; bread. Bekh. 43ᵇ, v. סְקִיפַס. Lam. R. to III, 16 Ar., v. פְּטִילִיק.—Y. Ber. VI, 10ᵇ bot., v. פִּיסְּתָא.
- 4. (from its shape, cmp. כַּף) spade or shovel. Lev. R. s. 24; s. 25 Ar., v. מַכּוֹשָׁא II.—
- *5. פ׳ דביר (v. preced.) watering station. Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXIII, 3 ושריין כמין פ׳ דב׳ (not דבַר) and they rest as it were at a watering station; (Y. II על פום דבירוי).
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 5 distinct written forms H6446 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/פַּסִּ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 37:23 | 1 |
| הַ/פַּסִּ֗ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 37:32 | 1 |
| הַ/פַּסִּ֛ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 13:19 | 1 |
| פַּסִּ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 13:18 | 1 |
| פַּסִּֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 37:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6446, 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.
Derives from
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Proper names from this root
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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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