Lexical Summary puwts: to be dispersed or scattered Original Word: פוּץTransliteration: puwts Phonetic Spelling: (poots) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be dispersed or scattered Meaning: to be dispersed or scattered Strong's Concordance break dash, shake in to pieces, cast abroad, disperse selves, drive, scatter abroad, spread abroadA primitive root; to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) -- break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6327. puwts I. [מּוּץ] verb be dispersed, scattered (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; perhaps akin to Arabic break asunder, scatter); — Qal Imperfect3masculine plural יָפוּצוּ Psalm 68:2, יָפֻצוּ Ezekiel 48:16 +; 3 feminine plural וַתְּפוּצֶינָה 34:5 +, וּתְפוּצֶינָה Zechariah 13:7, etc.; Imperative masculine plural מֻּצוּ 1 Samuel 14:34; Participle passive plural suffix מּוּצַי Zephaniah 3:10 (see below); — be dispersed, disperse, בָּעָם 1 Samuel 14:34; be scattered, of enemies 11:11; Numbers 10:35; Psalm 68:2; of Israel (among nations) under figure of flock Ezekiel 34:5 (twice in verse); Zechariah 13:7; בַּתמּֿוּצַי Zephaniah 3:10 is probably corrupt, and 3:9; 3:10 gloss see SchwZAW x (1890), 203 Now Da; of besieging army 2 Samuel 20:22 (הָעִיר מֵעַל); people from (מִן) possessions Ezekiel 46:18; men (from Babel) Genesis 11:4 (עַל location). Niph`al Perfect3feminine singular נָפ֫וֺצָה Jeremiah 10:21, 3plural נָפֹ֫צוּ Genesis 10:18 +, 2 masculine plural נְפֹצֹתֶם Ezekiel 11:17 +, etc.; Participle feminine נָפ֫וֺצֶת 2 Samuel 18:8 Qr (> Kt נפצות) compare Dr and others; plural נְפֹצִים 1 Kings 22:17, נְפוֺצִים2 Chronicles 18:16; — 1 be scattered, of army 2 Kings 25:5 (מֵעַל person) = Jeremiah 52:8; 1 Kings 22:17 (אֶל location) = 2 Chronicles 18:16 (עַל), compare Jeremiah 40:15 (absolute); of dispersed Israel with ב location Ezekiel 11:17; 20:34, 41; 28:25, as flock Jeremiah 10:21; Ezekiel 34:6 (עַל location), 34:12 (שָׁם); Egyptians 29:13 (שָׁמָּה); of battle scattered over country by defeat 2 Samuel 18:8. 2 be spread abroad, of peoples Genesis 10:18. Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular consecutive וְהֵפִיץ Deuteronomy 4:27 +, 1 singular consecutive וַהֲפִיצוֺתִי Ezekiel 22:15, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יָפִיץ Job 37:11, וַיָּ֫פֶץ Genesis 11:8 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular הָפֵץ Job 40:11; Infinitive construct לְהָפִיץ Ezekiel 20:23, etc.; — 1 transitive scatter: a. with accusative of person Genesis 11:8-9, (עַל location), Isaiah 41:16; Habakkuk 3:14; with ב Genesis 49:7; Israel among (ב) nations Deuteronomy 4:27; 28:64; Jeremiah 9:15; Ezekiel 11:16; 12:15; 20:23; 22:15; 36:19; Nehemiah 1:8; with שׁמ(הׅ Deuteronomy 30:3; Jeremiah 30:11; with אֶל location Ezekiel 34:21; absolute Jeremiah 13:24; 18:17, under figure of flock 23:1-2, Gr. reads אֲפִיצֵם also Deuteronomy 32:26 (see [פאה]); Egyptians (c.ב) Ezekiel 29:12; 30:23, 26; inhabitants of earth Isaiah 24:1. b. with accusative of thing, arrows (figurative for lightnings) 2 Samuel 22:15 = Psalm 18:15; 144:6; cloud Job 37:11; אַמֶּ֑ךָ עַבְרוֺת הָפֵץ 40:11 (i.e. lightnings ?); seed Isaiah 28:25. c. וֶהֱפִיצֻהוּ Job 18:11 and drive him (si vera lectio, see conjecture in Bu). 2 intransitive, scatter, with ב location Exodus 5:12, with מֵעַל person 1 Samuel 13:8; of wind Job 38:24 (עַל location). II. מּוּץ verb flow, overflow (Arabic flow, compare BaES 69); — Qal Imperfect3masculine plural יָפוּצוּ Proverbs 5:16 of springs, figurative for sources of pleasure; 3 feminine plural מִטוֺב עָרַי תְּפוּצֶנָה Zechariah 1:17 my cities shall overflow with good. [מָּצַץ] verb break (Arabic break, break asunder; Nabataean פצץ break asunder; Syriac crush); — Po`. Imperfect3masculine singular סָ֑לַע יְפֹצֵץ Jeremiah 23:29 a hammer which shatters rock. Hithpo`el Imperfect3masculine plural וַיִּתְמִּצְצוּ Habakkuk 3:6 and the eternal mountains were shattered (elsewhere √ מּוּץ were scattered). Pilpel Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיְפַצְמְּצֵנִי Job 16:12 he [God] dashed me in pieces (figurative). |