to divide
pa.ras describes the splitting of an animal’s hoof and occurs in clauses about sharing or breaking bread.
The predominant use concerns an animal’s hoof being split, a feature used in the dietary descriptions of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Two Qal occurrences stand in clauses about bread being shared or broken, while the supplied translation for Psalm 69:32 does not isolate the participle’s contribution.
Senses in use
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Having a split hoof · dominant
Hiphil active participles describe animals in the dietary clauses. In Leviticus 11:3 the APB renders an animal that “divides the hoof and cleaves the cleft,” while Leviticus 11:4 and Leviticus 11:7 contrast animals by whether the hoof is divided; Deuteronomy 14:6 likewise places the form in the description of animals that may be eaten.
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Sharing or breaking bread · occasional
The Qal forms occur in bread-related clauses rather than animal descriptions. In Isaiah 58:7 the APB renders the clause “to share your bread with the hungry”; in Jeremiah 16:7 it renders a mourning practice as not to “break bread for them.”
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Contribution not isolated by the translation · rare
Psalm 69:32 contains a Hiphil active participle, but the supplied APB wording—“The poor have seen it and will rejoice”—does not show which part of the English clause reflects this form. The occurrence therefore does not support a more specific usage label from the supplied evidence.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In the dietary passages, the APB repeatedly presents the relevant clause with “divides the hoof” or “divided the hoof.” In the Qal bread clauses it uses “share your bread” and “break bread”; these are renderings of whole clauses, and Psalm 69:32 does not isolate the term.