To disappear
פָּסַסStrong’s H6461pasas (pa-sas)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Pasas is the Hebrew word usually translated “have vanished”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.”
Meaning
- To disappear, vanish, cease, fail(Qal) to vanish
How it's translated
- they have vanished 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
פָּסַס pasas · to disappear
1) to disappear, vanish, cease, fail 1a) (Qal) to vanish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “disappear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISAPPEAR, verb intransitive
[dis and appear.]
- To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to become invisible by vanishing or departing, or by being enveloped in any thing that conceals, or by the interposition of an object.
- To cease; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
- To withdraw from observation.
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.