par.sah denotes an animal’s hoof, especially in dietary descriptions and images of trampling or strength.

The term denotes an animal’s hoof: most often the bodily feature described as divided or cleft in food instructions, and elsewhere the hoofs of livestock or horses in scenes of movement, trampling, and strength.

1. An animal’s hoof in physical description · dominant

   In Leviticus 11:3 and Deuteronomy 14:6, the singular form occurs in the clause describing an animal that divides and cleaves the hoof; the APB renders the clause with “divides the hoof” and “cleaves the cleft.” The same bodily feature is also shown in plural construct forms attached to horses in Ezekiel 26:11 and Isaiah 5:28, and in imagery of trampling and crushing in Jeremiah 47:3 and Micah 4:13.

   Leviticus 11:3Deuteronomy 14:6Ezekiel 26:11Isaiah 5:28Jeremiah 47:3Micah 4:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB normally presents the term as “hoof” or “hoofs,” including “divides the hoof” in dietary clauses and “the hooves of his horses” in Ezekiel 26:11. These English expressions reflect the verse contexts to the Hebrew.