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בָּצֵק bâtsêq — perhaps to swell up, i.e. blister

pronounced baw-tsake' · Strong's H1216 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as swell.

a primitive root; perhaps to swell up, i.e. blister.

bâtsêq in each stem

Qal (Pa'al)

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 2

בָצֵ֑קָה Deut 8:4 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. (KJV)

בָצֵֽקוּ Neh 9:21 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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