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# אַמְתַּחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H572

**sack** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sack [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/572/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַמְתַּ֫חַת²: n.f. sack [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/572/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sack, only Gn 42–44 (E); א׳ constr. Gn 44:2, 12; sf. אַמְתַּחְתִּי 42:28, אַמְתַּחְתּוֹ 42:27 + 2 times; pl. cstr. אַמְתְּחֹת 44:1; sf. אַמְתְּחֹתֵינוּ 43:18 + 3 times; אַמְתְּחֹתֵיכֶם 43:12, 23;—sack(s) in wh. brethren of Joseph carried corn from Egypt; in phr. בְּפִי אַמ׳ Gn 42:27 in the mouth of the sack, so 43:12, 21; 44:1, 2, 8; elsewhere 42:28; 43:18, 21, 22, 23; 44:1, 11(×2), 12 (all J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sacks (4); his sack (3); sack (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 44:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.11/#tree)

וַֽיְמַהֲר֗וּ וַיּוֹרִ֛דוּ אִ֥ישׁ אֶת־אַמְתַּחְתּ֖וֹ אָ֑רְצָה וַֽיִּפְתְּח֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ אַמְתַּחְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.hurried and they.brought.down each.man (et) sack his the.ground to and they.opened each.man sack his

*JPS 1917:* Then they hastened, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

[Genesis 44:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.12/#tree)

וַיְחַפֵּ֕שׂ בַּגָּד֣וֹל הֵחֵ֔ל וּבַקָּטֹ֖ן כִּלָּ֑ה וַיִּמָּצֵא֙ הַגָּבִ֔יעַ בְּאַמְתַּ֖חַת בִּנְיָמִֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.searched with the.old \[brother\] he.began and with the.young \[brother\] he.finished and it.was.found the cup in the.sack of.Benjamin

*JPS 1917:* And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/572/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).