שֶׁסַעsheçaʻ
cleft (Leviticus 11:26; Leviticus 11:3; Leviticus 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:6)
Pronunciation: sheh'-sah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8157
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- 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,
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).