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# פִּיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6368

**soot** — used 2 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

soot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6368/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּיחַ: soot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6368/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] soot, 𝔊 αἰθάλη (? wafted about);—cstr. פ׳ (הַ)כִּבְשָׁן Ex 9:8, 10 (P) furnace-soot.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 9:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.8/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָה֮ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאֶֽל־אַהֲרֹן֒ קְח֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מְלֹ֣א חָפְנֵיכֶ֔ם פִּ֖יחַ כִּבְשָׁ֑ן וּזְרָק֥וֹ מֹשֶׁ֛ה הַשָּׁמַ֖יְמָה לְעֵינֵ֥י פַרְעֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to Moses and to Aaron take (for yourselves the.fullness the.hollow.of.your.hands your soot of.a.kiln and he will.sprinkle.it Moses towards the heavens to the.eyes of.Pharaoh

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh.

[Exodus 9:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.10/#tree)

וַיִּקְח֞וּ אֶת־פִּ֣יחַ הַכִּבְשָׁ֗ן וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה וַיִּזְרֹ֥ק אֹת֛וֹ מֹשֶׁ֖ה הַשָּׁמָ֑יְמָה וַיְהִ֗י שְׁחִין֙ אֲבַעְבֻּעֹ֔ת פֹּרֵ֕חַ בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) the.soot of.(the) kiln and they.stood before Pharaoh and he.sprinkled it Moses towards the heavens and it.became boil\[s\] blisters breaking.out on (the) humankind and on the livestock

*JPS 1917:* And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6368.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6368/): 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).