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title: פִּתּוּחַ — engraving · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פִּתּוּחַ (6603), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: engraving. BDB 1906: n.m. engraving. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פִּתּוּחַ

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«פִּתּוּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **engraving** — 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:** 11 times · **Key:** 6603 · **BDB:** פִּתּוּחַ

### Glosses

\[the\].engravings (4); engravings (3); engraving (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

engraving [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6603/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. engraving [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6603/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. engraving;—abs. פ׳ 2 Ch 2:13; sf. פִּתֻּחָהּ Zc 3:9; elsewhere pl. פִּתּוּחִים 2 Ch 2:6, etc.;—on (wood overlaid with) metal, פִּתּוּחֵי מִקְלְעוֹת כְּרוּבִים 1 K 6:29 (see v 21, 22), in temple, so ψ 74:6; on stone Zc 3:9, especially פִּתּוּחֵי חֹתָם Ex 28:11, 21, 36; 39:6, 14, 30; in gen. 2 Ch 2:6, 13.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פִּתּוּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6603/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 74:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.6/)

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וְ֭עַתָּה פִּתּוּחֶ֣יהָ יָּ֑חַד בְּכַשִּׁ֥יל וְ֝כֵֽילַפֹּ֗ת יַהֲלֹמֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* and now engravings its altogether with axe\[s\] and crowbars they struck

*JPS 1917:* And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.

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[Exodus 28:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.36/)

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וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ צִּ֖יץ זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר וּפִתַּחְתָּ֤ עָלָיו֙ פִּתּוּחֵ֣י חֹתָ֔ם קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make a.plate of.gold pure and you.will.engrave on it \[the\].engravings of.a.seal holiness to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE LORD.

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