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title: פִּתֹם — Pithom · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פִּתֹם (6619), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Pithom. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Pithom. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פִּתֹם

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«פִּתֹם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Pithom** — 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:** 6619 · **BDB:** פִּתֹם

### Glosses

Pithom (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Pithom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6619/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Pithom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6619/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Pithom, Π(ε)ιθω, A Πιθωμ (Egyptian Patum, Per-Atum, house of (god) Atum) one of the עָרֵי מִסְכְּנוֹת built by Isr. for Pharaoh Ex 1:11; identif. by Naville with Tel el-Maskhûta, near E. end of Wady Tumilat, Naville Pithom, 1885 Di-Ry ad loc. Di SBAk, 1885, 889 ff. BädEgypt (4), 159.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פִּתֹם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6619/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 1:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.11/)

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וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ עָלָיו֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מִסִּ֔ים לְמַ֥עַן עַנֹּת֖וֹ בְּסִבְלֹתָ֑ם וַיִּ֜בֶן עָרֵ֤י מִסְכְּנוֹת֙ לְפַרְעֹ֔ה אֶת־פִּתֹ֖ם וְאֶת־רַעַמְסֵֽס׃

*Word for word:* and they.appointed over it overseers of.slave.gangs so.as to afflict.it with their.forced labor and it.built cities of.stores for Pharaoh (et) Pithom and (et) Rameses

*JPS 1917:* Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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