פַּטִּישׁ
hammer
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6360 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 2 verses
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.
פטיש (paṭṭîysh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “hammer.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Jeremiah dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. It first appears in Isaiah 41:7. Related forms include פטיש. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6360 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 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: Hammer 1×, How is the hammer 1×, Like a hammer 1×
- American Standard Version: Hammer 1×, How is the hammer 1×, Like a hammer 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hammer 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hammer 1×, Like a hammer 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6360 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6360 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6360 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 H6360 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- forge hammer, hammer
Word origin
n.m. Je 50:23 forge-hammer;—(NH = BH; Aramaic loan-word according to Frä 85, and so Arabic فِطِّيسٌ (cf. Arabic trad. in Lane), v. 𝔗 פַּטִּישָׁא; but LagBN 103 cp. فِطِّيسَةٌ swine’s snout, Syriac ܦܛܰܫ flat-nosed);—פ׳ abs. Is 41:7 Je 23:29; cstr. 50:23 fig. of Bab. as destroyer.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: intensively from an unused root meaning to pound
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פַּטִּישׁ
- פטש to shatter, crush) hammer. Kel. XXIX, 7 יד בן הפ׳ the handle of a small hammer; של הפ׳ of the sledge-hammer. Maas. Sh. V, 15; M. Kat. 11ᵃ, a. e. עד ימיו היה פ׳ מכה בירושלם up to his day the striking of the hammer was heard in Jerusalem (during the festive week). Cant. R. to V, 14, a. e. נחלק הפ׳ the sledge-hammer (striking on the sapphire) was shivered to pieces. Snh. 34ᵃ; Sabb. 88ᵇ, v. נִיצוֹץ; a. fr.—Ib. VII, 2 המכה בפ׳ he who gives the finishing stroke with the hammer; ib. 75ᵇ כל מידי דאית ביה גמר מלאכה חייב משום מכה בפ׳ any act of finishing up a work comes under the category of striking with the hammer; a. fr.—Trnsf. great character. Ber. 28ᵇ נר ישראל … פ׳ החזק thou light of Israel, right-hand pillar, powerful hammer!
פְּטִישׁ
- (פטש, v. preced.; cmp. כִּיתַּן a. כְּתוֹנֶת) [linen,] undergarment, breeches. Lam. R. to I, 1 חזי … דלא הוה ברגלי פ׳ (חד מתלמידוי) רבתי (Ar. פשוש) I saw in my dream that I had no breeches on my legs.—Pl. פְּטִישִׁין, פַּטִּי׳, פַּטְשִׁ׳. Dan. III, 21, v. אַבְרְקִין. e.g. Daniel 3:21
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H6360 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פַּטִּ֖ישׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 41:7 | 2 |
| וּ/כְ/פַטִּ֖ישׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 23:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6360, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
