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# פִּיכֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6369

**Phichol** — 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

Phichol [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6369/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּיכֹל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6369/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. captain of Abimelech of Gerar Gn 21:22, 32; 26:26, Φικολ, 𝔊L Φιχολ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Phicol (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.26/#tree)

וַאֲבִימֶ֕לֶךְ הָלַ֥ךְ אֵלָ֖יו מִגְּרָ֑ר וַאֲחֻזַּת֙ מֵֽרֵעֵ֔הוּ וּפִיכֹ֖ל שַׂר־צְבָאֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and Abimelech he.came to him from Gerar and Ahuzzah friend his.close and Phicol the.commander his.army his

*JPS 1917:* Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.

[Genesis 21:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.32/#tree)

וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ בְרִ֖ית בִּבְאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע בְאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע וַיָּ֣קָם אֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְ וּפִיכֹל֙ שַׂר־צְבָא֔וֹ וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.made a.covenant at Beer Sheba and he.arose Abimelech and Phicol the.commander his.army his and they.returned to the.land of.\[the\].Philistines

*JPS 1917:* So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6369.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6369/): 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).