pis.se.ach describes a person or animal with an impairment of the feet or legs, including those unable to walk normally.

The term describes a physical condition affecting normal movement, applied chiefly to people with impaired feet or legs and also to animals judged unsuitable for sacrifice. The supplied verses can portray such persons as needing help, gathered among a returning company, receiving spoil, or leaping, while sacrificial contexts list the condition among disqualifying blemishes.

1. Physical impairment of feet or legs · dominant

   The adjective identifies people whose movement is impaired: in 2 Samuel 9:13 the APB renders Mephibosheth as “lame in both feet,” and in Job 29:15 it renders the speaker as “feet to the lame.” In Isaiah 35:6 the APB renders the affected person as one who “will leap like a deer,” while Deuteronomy 15:21 and Malachi 1:8 place the same condition among blemishes in animals not fit for sacrifice.

   2 Samuel 9:13Job 29:15Isaiah 35:6Deuteronomy 15:21Malachi 1:8Leviticus 21:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the term with “lame,” sometimes specifying feet or legs, as in 2 Samuel 9:13 and Proverbs 26:7. Its contribution is less clear in 2 Samuel 19:27, where no corresponding description is explicit in the English verse.