פִּסֵּחַpiççêach

lame (2 Samuel 9:13; 2 Samuel 5:6; Leviticus 21:18; 2 Samuel 19:27; Deuteronomy 15:21)

Pronunciation: pis-say'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6455

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 21:18 No one who has a defect qualifies, whether he is blind, lame, disfigured, deformed,
  • Deuteronomy 15:21 But if this firstborn animal has any defect, such as lameness or blindness, or if anything else is wrong with it, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
  • 2 Samuel 5:6 David then led his men to Jerusalem to fight against the Jebusites, the original inhabitants of the land who were living there. The Jebusites taunted David, saying, “You’ll never get in here! Even the blind and lame could keep you out!” For the Jebusites thought they were safe.
  • 2 Samuel 5:8 On the day of the attack, David said to his troops, “I hate those ‘lame’ and ‘blind’ Jebusites. Whoever attacks them should strike by going into the city through the water tunnel.” That is the origin of the saying, “The blind and the lame may not enter the house.”
  • 2 Samuel 9:13 And Mephibosheth, who was crippled in both feet, lived in Jerusalem and ate regularly at the king’s table.
  • 2 Samuel 19:26 Mephibosheth replied, “My lord the king, my servant Ziba deceived me. I told him, ‘Saddle my donkey so I can go with the king.’ For as you know I am crippled.
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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).