Midvash

שָׁסַעshâçaʻ

שָׁסַע: divide, cleave

Pronunciation: shaw-sah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8156

Meanings

Qal: cleaving the cleft of the hoof, i.e. having cloven hoof (Leviticus 11:7; Leviticus 11:3; Deuteronomy 14:6)

Pi`el: tear in two (Judges 14:6; Leviticus 1:17; 1 Samuel 24:8)

שֶׁ֫סַע: cleft (Leviticus 11:26; Leviticus 11:3; Leviticus 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:6)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 1:17 Then, grasping the bird by its wings, the priest will tear the bird open, but without tearing it apart. Then he will burn it as a burnt offering on the wood burning on the altar. It is a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
  • Leviticus 11:3 You may eat any animal that has completely split hooves and chews the cud.
  • Leviticus 11:7 The pig has evenly split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is unclean.
  • Leviticus 11:26 “Any animal that has split hooves that are not evenly divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. If you touch the carcass of such an animal, you will be defiled.
  • Deuteronomy 14:6 “You may eat any animal that has completely split hooves and chews the cud,
  • Deuteronomy 14:7 but if the animal doesn’t have both, it may not be eaten. So you may not eat the camel, the hare, or the hyrax. They chew the cud but do not have split hooves, so they are ceremonially unclean for you.
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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).