pa.tsach describes breaking out in song or joyful cry, and once the breaking of bones.

The predominant use is an outbreak of singing, joyful cry, or praise: people, Jerusalem’s ruins, and features of creation are summoned or portrayed as breaking out in song. A single distinct occurrence describes the breaking of bones in violent treatment.

1. Breaking out in singing or joyful cry · dominant

   Qal forms occur in calls and descriptions of singing: in Isaiah 44:23 the APB renders the mountains’ response “break forth, O mountains, into singing,” and in Isaiah 52:9 it addresses Jerusalem’s ruins with “Break forth together into singing.” Isaiah 14:7, Isaiah 49:13, Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:12, and Psalm 98:4 likewise place the action amid singing, shouting, rejoicing, or a cry.

   Isaiah 14:7Isaiah 44:23Isaiah 49:13Isaiah 52:9Isaiah 54:1Isaiah 55:12
2. Breaking bones in violent treatment · rare

   In Micah 3:3, the Piel perfect form occurs in a sequence describing violence against “my people”; the APB renders the clause “broke their bones” before describing flesh placed in a pot.

   Micah 3:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the Qal occurrences, the APB commonly uses “break forth” or “break out” in clauses of singing, shouting, or crying; Isaiah 14:7 has “break forth into singing.” In Micah 3:3 it uses “broke their bones”; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.