Be agile
פָּזַזStrong’s H6339pazaz (pa-zaz)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pazaz is the Hebrew word usually translated “were agile” and “leaping”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)”
Meaning
- To bound, be agile, be supple(Qal) to be nimble · (Piel) to leap, show agility
How it's translated
- and they were agile 1
- leaping 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Samuel 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּזַז pazaz · be agile
1) to bound, be agile, be supple 1a) (Qal) to be nimble 1b) (Piel) to leap, show agility
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leaping” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LE'APING, participle present
tense Jumping; springing; bounding; skipping.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.