חַסְפַּס chaçpaç — reduplicated from an unused root meaning apparently to peel
Translated in the KJV as round thing.
reduplicated from an unused root meaning apparently to peel; a shred or scale.
chaçpaç in each stem
Pu'al
Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them
Participle (passive) 1
מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס Exod 16:14 Participle (passive), masculine singular
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›