פָּחַז
pachaz · reckless
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6348 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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pachaz (פָּחַז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “reckless”.
Unrestrained: a person who rushes into everything without thinking. The picture of the word is water that boils over.
How to say it
pa·chaz
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Rushing into anything without restraint or sense, like water spilling over.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 9:4
They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal-berith, and with them Abimelech hired empty and reckless men, and they followed him.
- Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are reckless, men of treachery; her priests have profaned what is holy, they have done violence to the instruction.