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# פִּתֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6619

**Pithom** — 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

Pithom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6619/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּתֹם: n.pr.loc. Pithom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6619/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Pithom, Π(ε)ιθω, A Πιθωμ (Egyptian Patum, Per-Atum, house of (god) Atum) one of the עָרֵי מִסְכְּנוֹת built by Isr. for Pharaoh Ex 1:11; identif. by Naville with Tel el-Maskhûta, near E. end of Wady Tumilat, Naville Pithom, 1885 Di-Ry ad loc. Di SBAk, 1885, 889 ff. BädEgypt (4), 159.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Pithom (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.11/#tree)

וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ עָלָיו֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מִסִּ֔ים לְמַ֥עַן עַנֹּת֖וֹ בְּסִבְלֹתָ֑ם וַיִּ֜בֶן עָרֵ֤י מִסְכְּנוֹת֙ לְפַרְעֹ֔ה אֶת־פִּתֹ֖ם וְאֶת־רַעַמְסֵֽס׃

*Word for word:* and they.appointed over it overseers of.slave.gangs so.as to afflict.it with their.forced labor and it.built cities of.stores for Pharaoh (et) Pithom and (et) Rameses

*JPS 1917:* Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6619.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6619/): 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).