פָּצַל pâtsal — to peel

pronounced paw-tsal' · Strong's H6478 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Pi'el

Translated in the KJV as pill.

a primitive root; to peel.

pâtsal in each stem

Pi'el 2×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1

וַיְפַצֵּ֤ל Gen 30:37 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. (KJV)

פִּצֵּ֔ל Gen 30:38 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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