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title: פִּישׁוֹן — Pison · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פִּישׁוֹן (6376), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Pison. BDB 1906: n.pr.fl. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פִּישׁוֹן

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«פִּישׁוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Pison** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6376 · **BDB:** פִּישׁוֹן

### Glosses

\[is\].Pishon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Pison [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6376/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.fl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6376/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. (Thes sub פושׁ, cf. especially NesMarg. 5, but dub.);—one of the rivers of Eden Gn 2:11, Φ(ε)ισων, (on theories of identif. v. Comm., also reff. sub גִּיחוֹן).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פִּישׁוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6376/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.2.11/)

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שֵׁ֥ם הָֽאֶחָ֖ד פִּישׁ֑וֹן ה֣וּא הַסֹּבֵ֗ב אֵ֚ת כָּל־אֶ֣רֶץ הַֽחֲוִילָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם הַזָּהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* the.name of the.one \[is\].Pishon it \[is\].the \[one.which\].goes.around (et) all the.land of.(the) Havilah where \[is\].there (the) gold

*JPS 1917:* The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

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