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# פֵּתַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6608

**opening** — 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

opening [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6608/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֵּ֫תַח: n.m. opening, unfolding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6608/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. opening, unfolding;—cstr. פ׳ דְּבָרֶיךָ יָאִיר ψ 119:130, so 𝔊 and most; \> Symm Jer Bae פֶּתַח (=thy words as a doorway).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 opening (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:130](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.130/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.130/#tree)

פֵּ֖תַח דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ יָאִ֗יר מֵבִ֥ין פְּתָיִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.opening your.words your it.gives.light \[it.is\].giving.understanding.to simple.people

*JPS 1917:* The opening of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6608.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6608/): 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).