Recklessness
פַּ֫חַזStrong’s H6349pachaz (pa-chaz)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Pachaz is the Hebrew word usually translated “destructiveness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.”
Meaning
- Recklessness, wantonness, unbridled license, frothiness
How it's translated
- destructiveness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
פַּ֫חַז pachaz · recklessness
recklessness, wantonness, unbridled license, frothiness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “recklessness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RECK'LESSNESS, noun
Heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
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.