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# פֶּתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6612

**simple** — used 16 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

simple [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6612/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫תִי: adj. simple open-minded [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6612/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[for פָּתַי LagBN 52 BaZMG xiii (1888), 353; NB 320\] adj. simple, poss. as open-minded;—פֶּ֫תִי Pr 9:4 +, פֶּ֑תִי ψ 19:8 +; pl. פְּתָאיִם (Ges§ 93 x) 116:6 + 6 times Pr; פְּתָיִים 119:130 Pr 22:3; פְּתָיִם 1:22, 32;—simple, as subst. concr.: open to the instruction of wisdom or folly, Pr 9:4, 16; believing every word 14:15; lacking עָרְמָה 1:4; 8:5; 19:25; needing בין ψ 119:130, חכמה 19:8 Pr 21:11; in good sense, שׁנר פתאים י׳ ψ 116:6 י׳ preserveth the simple-minded; but usually tendency to bad sense; פתאים love פתי Pr 1:22; inherit אִוֶּלֶת 14:18, are easily enticed, misled and go back 1:32; 7:7; 9:6; 22:3 = 27:12; causing temple to need atonement Ez 45:20 (‖ שׁגה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 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: naive people (4); a naive person (3); O naive people (2).

## 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.

[Proverbs 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.5/#tree)

הָבִ֣ינוּ פְתָאיִ֣ם עָרְמָ֑ה וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים הָבִ֥ינוּ לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* understand O.naive.people prudence and O.fools understand heart

*JPS 1917:* O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6612.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6612/): 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).