פִּסֵּחַ

Leviticus 21:18 פִסֵּ֔חַ lame

No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

Deuteronomy 15:21 פִּסֵּ֙חַ֙ lame

But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Here: Lame, limping. The first of two parade examples of a defect. Hebrew uses a special word shape for bodily conditions (lame, blind, deaf, mute, hunchbacked), and this is one of them.

2 Samuel 5:6 וְהַפִּסְחִים֙ and the lame [people]

Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

2 Samuel 5:8 הַפִּסְחִים֙ וּפִסֵּ֔חַ the lame [people], and a lame [person]

On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”

Here: 'The lame ones.' With the article it means 'those lame ones', pointing back to the Jebusite boast in verse 6 that even their lame could keep David out.

2 Samuel 9:13 פִסֵּ֖חַ [was] lame

So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet.

2 Samuel 19:26 פִסֵּ֖חַ [is] lame

“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,

Job 29:15 לַפִּסֵּ֣חַ to the lame

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

Proverbs 26:7 מִפִּסֵּ֑חַ from a lame [person]

Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

Isaiah 33:23 פִּסְחִ֖ים lame [people]

Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

Here: 'Lame people': those least able to fight or to chase a fleeing enemy. They are the ones who carry off the loot, which shows the victory was not won by Jerusalem's strength.

Isaiah 35:6 פִּסֵּ֔חַ a lame [person]

Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Here: A person disabled in the legs or feet, who limps or cannot walk. The subject is held back until after the deer simile, so the line runs: "will leap, like a deer, the lame man."

Jeremiah 31:8 וּפִסֵּ֔חַ and [the] lame

Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!

Here: "And lame." Someone who could not keep up. "Blind and lame" is a standard pair for the most helpless people, and for people kept out of certain sacred roles.

Malachi 1:8 פִּסֵּ֥חַ a lame [animal]

When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

Here: A lame or limping animal. It is paired with 'blind' in Deut 15:21 as unfit for the altar.

Malachi 1:13 הַפִּסֵּ֙חַ֙ the lame [animal]

You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.

Here: A crippled or limping animal. The Law explicitly ruled such animals unfit for the altar (Lev 22:22; Deut 15:21). The same word appears in v. 8.