Strong's Lexicon

H2636

H2636 — חַספַּס

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewchacpacverb-stemOccurrences: 1TWOT: 704

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2636
Word:	חַספַּס
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	reduplicated from an unused root meaning apparently to peel
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	1
Transliteration:	chacpac
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	khas-pas'
Meaning:	1. a shred or scale
KJV Renderings:	round thing.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB2985

[חַסְפַּס] verb only Passive participle (scaled off) scale-like (apparent reduplication from *חסף for חספסף , see Ew^{§ 158 c} Ol^{§§ 214, 276} Ges^{«GKC:55»§ 55}, 6 Sta^{§
291}; Kö^{i, 250} thinks euphon. for מְחֻסְפָּף; to be compare are Arabic [untranscribed source text 1883], have scab, itch (Frey; but [untranscribed source text 1884] = ס ?); Aramaic חַסְפָּא potsherd, חַסְפְּנִיתָא scale (of fish), scurf; Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 1885] scabiosus fuit Di⁵⁸⁷ and Exod 16:14) — hence מְחֻסְפָּס scaled off, scale-like as Syrver ᵑ7 Thes Rob-Ges MV SS VB ; — of the manna דַּק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּק כַּכְּפֹר Exod 16:14 a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost.

BDB9538

חֲסַף noun [masculine] clay, potsherd ( ᵑ7 id.; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic [untranscribed source text 6013] clay vessel, [untranscribed source text 6014] plural potsherds Schulth⁶⁸, Syriac [untranscribed source text 6015] potsherd; ᵑ7 חצְבָא, Late Hebrew חָצָב clay vessel; Assyrian —aƒbu , id., [untranscribed source text 6016] jar (PS¹²³⁸), whence Arabic [untranscribed source text 6017] pottery Frä¹⁶⁹, but Sabean חסף jar, acc to Hom^ZMG Hom^{xivi (1892), 532}; compare Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 6018] jar (transposed; Di¹²⁶⁵); see Biblical Hebrew [חַסְפַּם]); — ׳ ח absolute Dan 2:41 (יְ פֶּחָר ׳ ח), חֲסַ֑ף Dan 2:33. Dan 2:42 construct טִינָא ׳ ח Dan 2:41. Dan 2:43 emphatic חַסְפָּא Dan 2:34. Dan 2:35. Dan 2:43.v: 45.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חספס (g’has-pas’)

Exodus 16:14

KJV: And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

EHCC: a amall round thing,

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