Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to split open
Usage: 1) to split or break open 1a) (Qal) to crack
Patsam means “break” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6480 פָּצַם (patsam) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. patsam (paw-tsam') v. 1. to rend (by earthquake) [a primitive root] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include hast, made, earth, tremble, and broken. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
patsam (paw-tsam') v. 1. to rend (by earthquake) [a primitive root] KJV: break.
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to split open
Usage: 1) to split or break open 1a) (Qal) to crack
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H6480.
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6480, grouped by book.
Patsam (Strong's H6480) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "break". patsam (paw-tsam') v. 1. to rend (by earthquake) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H6480 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6480 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hast, made, earth, tremble, broken, and heal. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.