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# מִפְתָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4669

**opening** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

opening [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4669/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִפְתָּח: opening, utterance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4669/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] opening, utterance;—cstr. מִפְתַּח שְׂפָתַי Pr 8:6 i.e. that with which my lips open.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the opening (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.6/#tree)

שִׁ֭מְעוּ כִּֽי־נְגִידִ֣ים אֲדַבֵּ֑ר וּמִפְתַּ֥ח שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י מֵישָׁרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* listen (dm) princely.things I.will.speak and the.opening my.lips my \[will.be\].uprightness(es)

*JPS 1917:* Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4669.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4669/): 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).