Bluntness
פְּצִירָהStrong’s H6477petsirah (pe-tsi-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Petsirah is the Hebrew word usually translated “charge”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.”
Meaning
- Price, chargemeaning uncertain · perhaps (CLBL) sharpening or (BDB) bluntness
How it's translated
- the charge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
פְּצִירָה petsirah · bluntness
1) price, charge 1a) meaning uncertain 1b) perhaps (CLBL) sharpening or (BDB) bluntness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bluntness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLUNT'NESS, noun
Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
- Coarseness of address; roughness of manners, rude sincerity or plainness.
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.