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title: פִּקֵּחַ — seeing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פִּקֵּחַ (6493), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: seeing. BDB 1906: adj. seeing. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פִּקֵּחַ

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«פִּקֵּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **seeing** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 6493 · **BDB:** פִּקֵּחַ

### Glosses

clear-sighted.\[people\] (1); seeing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

seeing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6493/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. seeing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6493/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. seeing;—פ׳ Ex 4:11 (opp. עִוֵּר); pl. פִּקְחִים, fig., 23:8 clear-sighted ones (cf. \[עָוַר\]).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פִּקֵּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6493/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 23:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.8/)

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וְשֹׁ֖חַד לֹ֣א תִקָּ֑ח כִּ֤י הַשֹּׁ֙חַד֙ יְעַוֵּ֣ר פִּקְחִ֔ים וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף דִּבְרֵ֥י צַדִּיקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and a.bribe not you.must.take (dm) (the) bribe it.makes.blind clear-sighted.\[people\] and it.perverts the.words of.righteous.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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[Exodus 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.4.11/)

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וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלָ֗יו מִ֣י שָׂ֣ם פֶּה֮ לָֽאָדָם֒ א֚וֹ מִֽי־יָשׂ֣וּם אִלֵּ֔ם א֣וֹ חֵרֵ֔שׁ א֥וֹ פִקֵּ֖חַ א֣וֹ עִוֵּ֑ר הֲלֹ֥א אָנֹכִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to him who? did.he.make a.mouth of (the) person or who? does.he.make dumb or deaf or seeing or blind ? not \[do\].I Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD?

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