Palm
פַּסStrong’s H6447pas
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pas is the Aramaic word usually translated “palm of” and “palm the”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”
Meaning
- Palm of the hand
How it's translated
- palm of 1
- palm the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
פַּס pas · palm
palm of the hand
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “palm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PALM, noun
p'am.. [Latin palma.]
- The inner part of the hand.
- A hand or hand's breadth; a lineal measure of three inches.
- The broad triangular part of an anchor at the end of the arms.
- The name of many species of plants, but particularly of the date-tree or great palm a native of Asia and Africa.
All definitions and other forms of “palm”
- Branches of the palm being worn in token of victory, hence the word signifies superiority, victory, triumph.
- Among seamen, an instrument used in sewing canvas instead of a thimble.
PALM, verb transitive
p'am. To conceal in the palm of the hand.
- To impose by fraud.
- To handle.
- To stroke with the hand.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.