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# פָּתַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6622

**interpret** — used 9 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

interpret [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6622/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּתַר: vb. interpret [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6622/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. interpret (dream), only Gn 40, 41 (NH id., J.Aram. פְּתַר; appar. =Aramaic פְּשַׁר, ܦܫܰܪ, dissolve, fig. solve, interpret, cf. פֵּשֶׁר);— Pf. 3 ms. פָּתַר, c. ל pers. Gn 40:22; 41:13; abs. פָּתָ֑ר 40:16; 41:12; c. acc. rei: Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְתָּר־לָנוּ 41:12; Inf. cstr. לִפְתֹּר 41:15; Pt. act. פֹּתֵר 40:8; 41:15, פּוֹי 41:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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: he interpreted (3); \[one who\] interprets (2); he had interpreted (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 40:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.22/#tree)

וְאֵ֛ת שַׂ֥ר הָאֹפִ֖ים תָּלָ֑ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר פָּתַ֛ר לָהֶ֖ם יוֹסֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.chief of the.bakers he.hanged just as he.had.interpreted for them Joseph

*JPS 1917:* But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

[Genesis 41:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.13/#tree)

וַיְהִ֛י כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר פָּֽתַר־לָ֖נוּ כֵּ֣ן הָיָ֑ה אֹתִ֛י הֵשִׁ֥יב עַל־כַּנִּ֖י וְאֹת֥וֹ תָלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as he.interpreted for us so it.was me he.restored to office my and him he.hanged

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was: I was restored unto mine office, and he was hanged.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6622.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6622/): 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).