Strong's #8156: shaca` (pronounced shaw-sah')

a primitive root; to split or tear; figuratively, to upbraid:--cleave, (be) cloven ((footed)), rend, stay.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâsa‛

1) to divide, cleave, part, split

1a) (Qal) cleaving, cleft (participle)

1b) (Piel) to tear in two, cleave in two

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Leviticus 1:17: " And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon"
Leviticus 11:3: "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud,"
Leviticus 11:7: "he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth"
Leviticus 11:26: "divideth the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor cheweth the cud,"
Deuteronomy 14:6: "beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth"
Deuteronomy 14:7: "of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as"
Judges 14:6: "of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing"
Judges 14:6: "came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand:"
1 Samuel 24:7: "So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise"