Lame
פִּסֵּחַStrong’s H6455pisseach (pis-se-ach)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pisseach is the Hebrew word usually translated “lame” and “from a lame”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,”
Meaning
- Lame
How it's translated
- lame 5
- the lame 2
- a lame 2
- and the lame 1
- and a lame 1
- to the lame 1
- from a lame 1
- and lame 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 4
- Isaiah 2
- Malachi 2
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 15:21And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
- 2 Samuel 5:6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
- 2 Samuel 5:8And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
- 2 Samuel 9:13So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.
- 2 Samuel 19:26And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
- Job 29:15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Hebrew dictionary
פִּסֵּחַ pisseach · lame
lame
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAME, adjective
- Crippled or disabled in a limb, or otherwise injured so as to be unsound and impaired in strength; as a lame arm or leg, or a person lame in one leg.
- Imperfect; not satisfactory; as a lame excuse.
- Hobbling; not smooth; as numbers in verse.
All definitions and other forms of “lame”
LAME, verb transitive
To make lame; to cripple or disable; to render imperfect and unsound; as, to lame an arm or a leg.
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.