pe.tsa denotes an injury or hurt, including bodily wounds and the trusted wounds attributed to a friend.

The term most often denotes bodily injury: it occurs in legal recompense, personal assault, and descriptions of bodily affliction. One verse applies the plural construct form to wounds attributed to a friend in contrast with an enemy’s kisses.

1. Bodily injury and its effects · dominant

   The singular and plural forms occur in clauses about injury, including the matching recompense formula in Exodus 21:25 and Lamech's statement that a man was killed for wounding him in Genesis 4:23. In Isaiah 1:6 the APB renders a body lacking soundness as marked by "wound and bruise and fresh wound," while Job 9:17 and Proverbs 23:29 place plural forms in accounts of multiplied wounds and wounds joined with pain and dull eyes. Proverbs 20:30 likewise places the singular alongside bruises and blows.

   Exodus 21:25Genesis 4:23Isaiah 1:6Job 9:17Proverbs 20:30Proverbs 23:29
2. Wounds attributed to a friend · rare

   In Proverbs 27:6 the plural construct form stands in the clause "Wounds from a friend can be trusted," set against an enemy who multiplies kisses. The verse applies the term within a relationship rather than a bodily-affliction description.

   Proverbs 27:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB commonly uses "wound" or "wounds" in bodily-injury contexts, including legal recompense, bruising, and untreated bodily harm. In Proverbs 27:6 it renders the relational clause "Wounds from a friend,".