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# פִּתּוּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6603

**engraving** — used 11 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

engraving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6603/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּתּוּחַ: n.m. engraving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6603/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. engraving;—abs. פ׳ 2 Ch 2:13; sf. פִּתֻּחָהּ Zc 3:9; elsewhere pl. פִּתּוּחִים 2 Ch 2:6, etc.;—on (wood overlaid with) metal, פִּתּוּחֵי מִקְלְעוֹת כְּרוּבִים 1 K 6:29 (see v 21, 22), in temple, so ψ 74:6; on stone Zc 3:9, especially פִּתּוּחֵי חֹתָם Ex 28:11, 21, 36; 39:6, 14, 30; in gen. 2 Ch 2:6, 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 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: \[the\] engravings (4); engravings (3); engraving (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 74:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.6/#tree)

וְ֭עַתָּה פִּתּוּחֶ֣יהָ יָּ֑חַד בְּכַשִּׁ֥יל וְ֝כֵֽילַפֹּ֗ת יַהֲלֹמֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* and now engravings its altogether with axe\[s\] and crowbars they struck

*JPS 1917:* And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.

[Exodus 28:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.36/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ צִּ֖יץ זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר וּפִתַּחְתָּ֤ עָלָיו֙ פִּתּוּחֵ֣י חֹתָ֔ם קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make a.plate of.gold pure and you.will.engrave on it \[the\].engravings of.a.seal holiness to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6603.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6603/): 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).