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Hebrew
prṣ - to make a split, a breach
(HALOT 972)
Alternatively, could be traced back to
*prṣ
‘to break, to cut’ or
*prṯ̣
‘to separate vertebrae from one another’.
Reconstruction
PS
*prṣ̂
- to cut, to pierce, to incise
(
EDA I
307)