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# פִּתְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6623

**interpretation** — used 5 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

interpretation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6623/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּתְרוֹן: n.m. interpretation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6623/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[Köii. 1, 154\] n.m. interpretation (of a dream), only Gn 40, 41;—cstr. פִּתְרוֹן Gn 40:5; 41:11; sf. פִּתְרֹנוֹ 40:12, 18; pl. פִּתְרֹנִים v 8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: interpretation (2); to the interpretation (2); \[do\] interpretations (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 40:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.12/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף זֶ֖ה פִּתְרֹנ֑וֹ שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙ הַשָּׂ֣רִגִ֔ים שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים הֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him Joseph this interpretation \[is\].its the.three the branches \[are\].three days they

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph said unto him: 'This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;

[Genesis 40:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.18/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַן יוֹסֵף֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר זֶ֖ה פִּתְרֹנ֑וֹ שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙ הַסַּלִּ֔ים שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים הֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Joseph and he.said this interpretation \[is\].its the.three the baskets \[are\].three days they

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6623/): 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).