פּוּשׁpûwsh

פּוּשׁ: spring about, apparently

Pronunciation: poosh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6335

Meanings

פּוּשׁ: Niph`al: be scattered, (read probably נָפֹצוּ) (Nahum 3:18)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Jeremiah 50:11 “You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
  • Nahum 3:18 Your shepherds are asleep, O Assyrian king; your princes lie dead in the dust. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together.
  • Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses are swifter than cheetahs and fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their charioteers charge from far away. Like eagles, they swoop down to devour their prey.
  • Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).