to wound
pa.tsa describes inflicting bodily injury, including a person struck and left wounded.
The attested uses describe bodily injury inflicted through striking: the verb occurs of a man being struck and wounded in 1 Kings 20:37 and of the speaker being struck and wounded by watchmen in Song of Songs 5:7; Deuteronomy 23:2 uses a passive participle in a status described without further detail in the translation.
Senses in use
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Inflicting bodily injury · dominant
In 1 Kings 20:37, the Qal infinitive absolute follows the report that a man struck the speaker; the APB renders the action as “striking and wounding him.” In Song of Songs 5:7, the Qal perfect recounts what the watchmen did after finding the speaker, and the APB renders that they “struck me and wounded me.”
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A person described as injured · rare
In Deuteronomy 23:2, the Qal passive participle modifies an unnamed person in the statement about entering the assembly of the LORD. The APB gives the verse's exclusion statement but does not make this form's specific contribution clear.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “wounding” alongside striking in 1 Kings 20:37 and Song of Songs 5:7. In Deuteronomy 23:2, its translation does not isolate the passive participle's contribution.