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# פָּתַח

Biblical Hebrew

**engrave** — used 9 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

engrave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּתַח²: vb. engrave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. engrave (NH Pi. id., פִּתּוּחַ = BH, and so 𝔗; Assyrian patâḫu, bore, penetrate; cf. perhaps Arabic فَتَخَةٌ, فَتْخَةٌ ring (cf. Frä 252));—Pf. 3 ms. פִּתַּח 2 Ch 3:7, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיְפַתַּח 1 K 7:36; 2 ms. תְּפַתַּח Ex 28:11; Inf. cstr. לְפַתֵּחַ 2 Ch 2:6, 13; Pt. מְפַתֵּחַ Zc 3:9;—engrave, c. acc. + עַל, on metal 1 K 7:36 2 Ch 3:7; Ex 28:36 (acc. cogn. פִּתּוּחֵי חוֹתָם), on stone v 9; c. acc. אֶבֶן + acc. cogn. v 11 (all P); c. acc. cogn. only, Zc 3:9 (on stone), and, in gen., 2 Ch 2:6, 13. Pt. fpl. מְפֻתָּחֹת פִּתּוּחֵי חוֹתָם Ex 39:6 (P) stones engraved with the engravings of a signet.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: you will engrave (3); engrave (2); he engraved (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.9/#tree)

וְלָ֣קַחְתָּ֔ אֶת־שְׁתֵּ֖י אַבְנֵי־שֹׁ֑הַם וּפִתַּחְתָּ֣ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם שְׁמ֖וֹת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.take (et) two stones of.onyx and you.will.engrave on them the.names of.the.sons of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

[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/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b8_5bc_5ea_5b7_5d7/): 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).