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# פִּרְעָתוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6552

**Pirathon** — 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

Pirathon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6552/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּרְעָתוֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6552/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Ephr. (? = height; cf. Sab. n.pr. יהפרע he makes lofty Osl.c.);—Ju 12:15; Φαραθωμ, A 𝔊L Φρααθων; perhaps mod. Farʿatâ, c. 6 miles WSW. from Nablus, cf. BuhlGeogr. 206 (GASmGeogr. 355 prop. top of Wady Farah NE. from Nablus).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 12:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.15/#tree)

וַיָּ֛מָת עַבְדּ֥וֹן בֶּן־הִלֵּ֖ל הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִ֑י וַיִּקָּבֵ֤ר בְּפִרְעָתוֹן֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ אֶפְרַ֔יִם בְּהַ֖ר הָעֲמָלֵקִֽי׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.died Abdon the.son of.Hillel the Pirathonite and he.was.buried at Pirathon in the.land of.Ephraim in the.hill.country of the.Amalekite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6552/): 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).