פָּסַג
to pass
‘to pass’ is one of 2 main senses 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6448 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Psalms 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.
At its core, פסג (pâçag) means “to pass.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Psalms (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Psalms 48:13. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. 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 H6448 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Consider 1×
- American Standard Version: Consider 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tour 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Consider 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6448 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6448 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6448 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6448 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- (Piel) to pass between or within
- meaning dubious
Word origin
פָּסַג vb. Pi. dub.; if correct, pass between;— ψ 48:14
— 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.
פָּסַג
- , Pi. פִּסֵּג
- 1. to divide, branch off; denom. פְּסִיגָה. Par. XI, 9 מְפַסְּגוֹ ואוגדו he severs the stalks of hyssop and ties them; פְּסָגוֹ ולא אגדו if he severed, but failed to tie them.
- 2. (denom. of פְּסִיגָה) to cut off sprays, to thin. B. Kam. 119ᵇ מְפַסְּגֵי אילנות ומפסגי גפנים (Ms. F. ומפסיקי; Ar. ומפסקי) those hired to thin trees or vines; (Tosef. ib. XI, 18 מפסקי גפנים only). M. Kat. 3ᵃ אין מְפַסְּגִין באילן you must not thin trees (during the festive week; Rashi: support the branches); a. e.—Tosef. B. Mets. II, 28, v. infra.
- to cut one’s way through branches, pass through woods, vineyards &c., trespass; to lead through thickets &c. B. Kam. 81ᵇ התועה … מַפְסִיג ויורד מפסיג ועולה וכ׳ if one loses his way in vineyards, he may cut his way through up and down &c.; הרואה … מפסיג וכ׳ he who sees a fellowman lost in vineyards, may make a way for him … until he brings him &c.; Tosef. B. Mets. II, 28 מְפַסְּגוֹ בשדות וכ׳ may lead him through fields and vineyards. Ib. הוא עצמו … מפסיג וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (ed. מפסג) he who is lost himself may make his way &c.
פְּסַג
- 1. to divide, cut apart. Targ. Y. Gen. XV, 10 (O. פלג, h. text בתר). Ib. XXVI, 31. Targ. Y. Lev. I, 6; a. e.—Part. pass. פָּסִיג. Gen. R. s. 100 פ׳ תִּרְעָךְ may thy ill-luck be broken (no more evil befall thee,—which allowing the meaning ‘may thy gate (תַּרְעָא) be broken’, is corrected to יסוג תורעך, v. סוּג ch.).
- 2. to break through a snare, escape. Gen. R. s. 79 כד שמע … פַּסְגָּא when R. S. heard the heavenly voice say demos (v. דִּימוֹס II), it (the bird) escaped; Yalk. ib. 133 פשגא (Ar. הות פשגה).—B. Kam. 81ᵇ דנִיפְסוֹג that he may be permitted to break through (the vineyard), v. preced.
- to divide. Targ. Y. Lev. I, 12 יַפְסֵיג (some ed. יְפַסֵּיג; ed. Vien. פַּיְסֵג, corr. acc.). Targ. Y. I. Ex. XXIX, 17 תַּפְסֵיג (Y. II תְּפַסֵּג; ed. Vien. תְּפַסֵּק).—Lam. R. to V, 5 מְפַסֵּג ליה וכ׳ (ed. Wil. מפסל, corr. acc.) he cut him up limb by limb. e.g. Exodus 29:17
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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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