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פִּסָּה

abundance

also: fulness, plenty fuller range ↓

H6451 Strong's Hebrew
piççâh Transliteration
/pis-saw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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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, פסה (piççâh) means “abundance.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to Psalms (100%). It occurs only once, in Psalms 72:16. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “fulness” and “plenty”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
handful
Modern gloss
abundance
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H6451 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.
Psalms 72:16
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Psalms 72:16.
#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

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 1 · 100%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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

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: Shall be an handful 1×
  • American Standard Version: Shall be abundance 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Abundance 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Abundance of 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H6451 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Shall be an handful” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H6451 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Shall be abundance” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H6451 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Abundance” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H6451 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Abundance of” 1×

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.

  1. abundance, fulness, plenty
  2. meaning dubious

Word origin

[ פִּסָּה ] n.f. dub.; if correct, prob. abundance, plenty (? prop. spread out );—cstr. ψ 72:16

— 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.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 1789b


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.

פִּסָּה

  • , constr. פִּסַּת, v. פַּס II

פָּסָה

  • , v. פסי

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.


Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6451, 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.

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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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