אַמְתַּ֫חַת
sack
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 8 times (53%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 7 times (47%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H572 appears — 12 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 12 verses
- Genesis 42:27 אַמְתַּחְתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
- Genesis 42:28 בְ/אַמְתַּחְתִּ֑/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is even in my sack." Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
- Genesis 43:12 אַמְתְּחֹֽתֵי/כֶם֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp and take double money in your hand, with the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.
- Genesis 43:18 בְּ/אַמְתְּחֹתֵ֨י/נוּ֙ prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall on us, and take us for bondservants, along with our donkeys."
- Genesis 43:21 אַמְתְּחֹתֵ֔י/נוּ אַמְתַּחְתּ֔/וֹ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand.
- Genesis 43:22 בְּ/אַמְתְּחֹתֵֽי/נוּ prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
- Genesis 43:23 בְּ/אַמְתְּחֹ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.
- Genesis 44:1 אַמְתְּחֹ֤ת אַמְתַּחְתּֽ/וֹ n c fp cs n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
- Genesis 44:2 אַמְתַּ֣חַת n c fs cs Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
- Genesis 44:8 אַמְתְּחֹתֵ֔י/נוּ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Genesis 44:11 אַמְתַּחְתּ֖/וֹ אַמְתַּחְתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
- Genesis 44:12 בְּ/אַמְתַּ֖חַת prep + n c fs cs He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אמתחת (ʼamtachath) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “sack.” It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. With 12 verses in 1 book, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 42:27. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H572 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 12 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sacks 6×, Sack 4×, Sack's 2×
- American Standard Version: Sacks 6×, Sack 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sack 7×, Sacks 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sacks 6×, Sack 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H572 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H572 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H572 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H572 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- sack, flexible container (for grain)
- (TWOT) spread out
Word origin
n.f. sack, only Gn 42–44 (E); א׳ constr. Gn 44:2, 12; sf. אַמְתַּחְתִּי 42:28, אַמְתַּחְתּוֹ 42:27 + 2 times; pl. cstr. אַמְתְּחֹת 44:1; sf. אַמְתְּחֹתֵינוּ 43:18 + 3 times; אַמְתְּחֹתֵיכֶם 43:12, 23;—sack(s) in wh. brethren of Joseph carried corn from Egypt; in phr. בְּפִי אַמ׳ Gn 42:27 in the mouth of the sack, so 43:12, 21; 44:1, 2, 8; elsewhere 42:28; 43:18, 21, 22, 23; 44:1, 11(×2), 12 (all J).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מתח (mâthach) (H4969) — to spread out.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H572 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַמְתַּחְתּֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 42:27 | 3 |
| אַמְתְּחֹתֵ֔י/נוּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 43:21 | 2 |
| אַמְתְּחֹ֤ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 44:1 | 1 |
| אַמְתְּחֹֽתֵי/כֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 43:12 | 1 |
| אַמְתַּ֣חַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 44:2 | 1 |
| אַמְתַּחְתּ֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 43:21 | 1 |
| אַמְתַּחְתּ֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 44:11 | 1 |
| בְ/אַמְתַּחְתִּ֑/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 42:28 | 1 |
| בְּ/אַמְתְּחֹ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 43:23 | 1 |
| בְּ/אַמְתְּחֹתֵ֨י/נוּ֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 43:18 | 1 |
| בְּ/אַמְתְּחֹתֵֽי/נוּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 43:22 | 1 |
| בְּ/אַמְתַּ֖חַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 44:12 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
