H6480 H6480
to split open, tear apart, used of God causing the earth to split in Psalm 60:2
This verb means to crack, split open, or tear apart, related to Arabic cognates with similar meanings. It appears only once in the Hebrew Bible, in Psalm 60:2, where the psalmist laments that God has made the land quake and caused it to split open. The imagery is of earthquake damage, with God as the subject causing the earth's surface to fracture and break apart. The verb conveys violent rupture and geological catastrophe as expressions of divine judgment or discipline.
Senses
1. sense 1 — In Psalm 60:2, the psalmist addresses God directly: 'You have torn it open,' referring to the land. The context describes national crisis through earthquake imagery—God shaking the land, causing it to split, and the people tottering. The multilingual evidence (torn, partiste, zerrissen, ouvrir) uniformly captures the forceful splitting action. This single attestation places the term within lament poetry describing communal disaster. 1×
AR["شَقَقتَها"]·ben["তুমি-ফাটিয়েছ"]·DE["du-haben-zerrissen-es-öffnen"]·EN["You-have-torn-it-open"]·FR["ouvrir"]·heb["פצמת-ה"]·HI["तूने-उसे-फाड़-दिया"]·IT["[פצמתה]"]·jav["Aram"]·KO["주께서-갈라놓으셨나이다-그것을"]·PT["abriste-a"]·RU["разрушил-её"]·ES["la-partiste"]·SW["umeipasua"]·TR["yarrdın-onu"]·urd["پَھاڑ-دِیا-اُسے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [פָּצַם] vb. split open (Arabic فَصَمَ crack; 𝔗 פַּצֵּם Je 22:14, cut out, make, window);— Qal Pf. 2 ms. sf. of earth, פְּצַמְתָּ֑הּ ψ 60:4 (subj. God).