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# פַּטִּישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6360

**forge-hammer** — used 3 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

forge-hammer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6360/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּטִּישׁ: n.m. forge-hammer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6360/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 50:23 forge-hammer;—(NH = BH; Aramaic loan-word according to Frä 85, and so Arabic فِطِّيسٌ (cf. Arabic trad. in Lane), v. 𝔗 פַּטִּישָׁא; but LagBN 103 cp. فِطِّيسَةٌ swine’s snout, Syriac ܦܛܰܫ flat-nosed);—פ׳ abs. Is 41:7 Je 23:29; cstr. 50:23 fig. of Bab. as destroyer.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: a hammer (1); of a hammer (1); the hammer (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 23:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.29/#tree)

הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֧ה דְבָרִ֛י כָּאֵ֖שׁ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ יְפֹ֥צֵֽץ סָֽלַע׃ס

*Word for word:* ? not thus word \[is\].my like (the) fire the.utterance of.Yahweh and like a.hammer \[which\].it.shatters rock

*JPS 1917:* Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

[Jeremiah 50:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.23/#tree)

אֵ֤יךְ נִגְדַּע֙ וַיִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר פַּטִּ֖ישׁ כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ אֵ֣יךְ הָיְתָ֧ה לְשַׁמָּ֛ה בָּבֶ֖ל בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* how! it.has.been.cut.off and it.has.been.broken the.hammer of.all the earth how! it.has.become (into).a horror Babylon among the nations

*JPS 1917:* How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6360.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6360/): 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).