Wound
פֶּ֫צַעStrong’s H6482petsa (pe-tsa)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Petsa is the Hebrew word usually translated “bruise”, “bruise my” and “wounds my”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.”
Meaning
- Bruise, wound
How it's translated
- bruise 4
- for bruise my 1
- wounds my 1
- wounds 1
- wounds of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 21:25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
- Job 9:17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- Proverbs 20:30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
- Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
- Proverbs 27:6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫צַע petsa · wound
bruise, wound
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wound” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOUND, noun
[G.]
- A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force.
- Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.
All definitions and other forms of “wound”
WOUND, verb transitive
To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.
- “He was wounded for our transgressions” Isaiah 53:5
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.