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# פְּתִיחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6609

**drawn** — 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

drawn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6609/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּתִיחָה: drawn sword [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6609/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** drawn sword;—pl. פְּתִחוֹת ψ 55:22 (fig. of words; cf. Ez 21:33 ψ 37:14).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] drawn swords (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 55:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.22/#tree)

חָלְק֤וּ ׀ מַחְמָאֹ֣ת פִּיו֮ וּֽקֲרָב־לִ֫בּ֥וֹ רַכּ֖וּ דְבָרָ֥יו מִשֶּׁ֗מֶן וְהֵ֣מָּה פְתִחֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* they.were.smooth the.creamy.things his.mouth his and.\[was\] war heart his they.were.soft words his more than.oil and they \[were\].drawn.swords

*JPS 1917:* Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet were they keen-edged swords.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6609/): 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).