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title: פַּטִּישׁ — forge-hammer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פַּטִּישׁ (6360), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: forge-hammer. BDB 1906: n.m. forge-hammer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פַּטִּישׁ

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«פַּטִּישׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **forge-hammer** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6360 · **BDB:** פַּטִּישׁ

### Glosses

a.hammer (1); of.a.hammer (1); the.hammer (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

forge-hammer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6360/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. forge-hammer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6360/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 50:23 forge-hammer;—(NH = BH; Aramaic loan-word according to Frä 85, and so Arabic فِطِّيسٌ (cf. Arabic trad. in Lane), v. 𝔗 פַּטִּישָׁא; but LagBN 103 cp. فِطِّيسَةٌ swine’s snout, Syriac ܦܛܰܫ flat-nosed);—פ׳ abs. Is 41:7 Je 23:29; cstr. 50:23 fig. of Bab. as destroyer.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פַּטִּישׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6360/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 23:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.29/)

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הֲל֨וֹא כֹ֧ה דְבָרִ֛י כָּאֵ֖שׁ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וּכְפַטִּ֖ישׁ יְפֹ֥צֵֽץ סָֽלַע׃ס

*Word for word:* ? not thus word \[is\].my like (the) fire the.utterance of.Yahweh and like a.hammer \[which\].it.shatters rock

*JPS 1917:* Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

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[Jeremiah 50:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.23/)

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אֵ֤יךְ נִגְדַּע֙ וַיִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר פַּטִּ֖ישׁ כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ אֵ֣יךְ הָיְתָ֧ה לְשַׁמָּ֛ה בָּבֶ֖ל בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* how! it.has.been.cut.off and it.has.been.broken the.hammer of.all the earth how! it.has.become (into).a horror Babylon among the nations

*JPS 1917:* How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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