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# פַּתבָּג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6598

**portion** — used 4 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

portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6598/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּת־בָּג: portion for delicacies [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6598/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (read always \[פַּתְבָּג\]) n.\[m.\] portion (of food) for king, delicacies (Pers. loan-word, cf. Skr. prati-bhâga Zend \[pati-baga; whence\] Gk. translit. ποτί-βαζις, Syriac ܦܰܛܒܴ̈ܓܶܐ; GildemZKM iv. 213 f. LagGes. Abh. 73 BevDu Dr Dn);—cstr. פַּת־בַּג הַמֶּלֶךְ Dn 1:5, 8, 13, 15, sf. פַּת־בָּגָם v 16, אֹכְלֵי פַת־בָּגוֹ 11:26.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: the delicaci\[es\] (3); delicaci\[es\] (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.16/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י הַמֶּלְצַ֗ר נֹשֵׂא֙ אֶת־פַּתְבָּגָ֔ם וְיֵ֖ין מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑ם וְנֹתֵ֥ן לָהֶ֖ם זֵרְעֹנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.was the guardian taking.away (et) delicaci\[es\] their and the.wine their.drink their and giving to them vegetables

*JPS 1917:* So the steward took away their food, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.

[Daniel 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.15/#tree)

וּמִקְצָת֙ יָמִ֣ים עֲשָׂרָ֔ה נִרְאָ֤ה מַרְאֵיהֶם֙ ט֔וֹב וּבְרִיאֵ֖י בָּשָׂ֑ר מִן־כָּל־הַיְלָדִ֔ים הָאֹ֣כְלִ֔ים אֵ֖ת פַּתְבַּ֥ג הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and from.\[the\] end of.days ten it.appeared appearance their good and fat of.flesh more.than all the youths \[who were\].eating (et) the.delicaci\[es\] of the.king

*JPS 1917:* And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths that did eat of the king's food.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6598.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6598/): 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).