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then you shall cut offוְקַצֹּתָהher hand;כַּפָּהּyour eyeעֵינֶךָshall notלֹאpity her.תָחוֹס
Deuteronomy 25:12
Study it in the app“then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 25:12, word by word
- then you shall cut offקַצֹּתָהkatsota
cut off
To split something into pieces with a cutting tool.
Where else “katsota” appears- her handכַּפָּkapa
palm
The flat, hollow part of the hand; also what someone does or can do with it.
Where else “kapa” appears- your eyeעֵינֶene
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appears- pity herתָחוֹסtachos
pity, spare
Have pity, take compassion; spare. "Let your eye not pity" means do not worry about what you leave behind.
Where else “tachos” appears
The context
11When men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes him by his private parts,
12 · This verse (above)
13You shall not have in your bag a weight and a weight, a large and a small.