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# פָּתִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6616

**cord** — 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

cord [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6616/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּתִיל: n.m. cord, thread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6616/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Ju 16:9 cord, thread (twisted);—abs. פ׳ Nu 19:15; cstr. פְּתִיל Ju 16:9 +; sf. פְּתִילֶךָ֑ Gn 38:18; pl. פְּתִילִים v 25, פְּתִילִם Ex 39:3;—cord (from which seal was hung) Gn 38:18, 25 (J), פ׳ נְעֹרֶת Ju 16:9 (sim.), פ׳ פִּשְׁתִּים Ez 40:3 (as measuring line); פ׳ תְּכֵלֶת, for fastening, Ex 28:28, 37; 39:21, 31; Nu 15:38, cf. פָּתִיל alone 19:15 (perhaps gloss, v. Di); threads (of gold) in ephold Ex 39:3 (all P).

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 (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: a cord (7); (the) cord (1); cord (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 19:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.19.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.19.15/#tree)

וְכֹל֙ כְּלִ֣י פָת֔וּחַ אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֵין־צָמִ֥יד פָּתִ֖יל עָלָ֑יו טָמֵ֖א הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and every vessel open which there.\[is\].not a.cover a.cord on it \[is\].unclean it

*JPS 1917:* And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is unclean.

[Exodus 28:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.37/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתָּ֤ אֹתוֹ֙ עַל־פְּתִ֣יל תְּכֵ֔לֶת וְהָיָ֖ה עַל־הַמִּצְנָ֑פֶת אֶל־מ֥וּל פְּנֵֽי־הַמִּצְנֶ֖פֶת יִהְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.put it on a.cord of.violet.stuff and it.will.be on the turban to the.front of.the.face of the.turban it.will.be

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6616.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6616/): 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).