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# פִּקֵּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6493

**seeing** — 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

seeing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6493/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּקֵּחַ: adj. seeing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6493/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. seeing;—פ׳ Ex 4:11 (opp. עִוֵּר); pl. פִּקְחִים, fig., 23:8 clear-sighted ones (cf. \[עָוַר\]).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: clear-sighted \[people\] (1); seeing (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 23:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.8/#tree)

וְשֹׁ֖חַד לֹ֣א תִקָּ֑ח כִּ֤י הַשֹּׁ֙חַד֙ יְעַוֵּ֣ר פִּקְחִ֔ים וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף דִּבְרֵ֥י צַדִּיקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and a.bribe not you.must.take (dm) (the) bribe it.makes.blind clear-sighted.\[people\] and it.perverts the.words of.righteous.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

[Exodus 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.11/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלָ֗יו מִ֣י שָׂ֣ם פֶּה֮ לָֽאָדָם֒ א֚וֹ מִֽי־יָשׂ֣וּם אִלֵּ֔ם א֣וֹ חֵרֵ֔שׁ א֥וֹ פִקֵּ֖חַ א֣וֹ עִוֵּ֑ר הֲלֹ֥א אָנֹכִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to him who? did.he.make a.mouth of (the) person or who? does.he.make dumb or deaf or seeing or blind ? not \[do\].I Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6493.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6493/): 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).