פַּךְ
flask
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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6378 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.
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 9:1 פַּ֣ךְ n c ms cs Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
- 2 Kings 9:3 פַךְ n c ms cs Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and don't wait.
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.
“flask” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun פך (pak). A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 2 Kings. Scripture first uses it in 1 Samuel 10:1. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6378 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: Box 2×
- American Standard Version: Vial 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Flask 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flask of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6378 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6378 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6378 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6378 across 3 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.
- vial, flask
Word origin
n.m. 2 K 9:1 phial, flask;—cstr. פ׳ הַשֶּׁמֶן, for anointing, 1 S 10:1; 2 K 9:1, 3.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פכה (pâkâh) (H6379) — to trickle.
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.
פַּךְ
- flask, jar with a narrow neck, v. טָפִי. Y. Hor. III, 47ᶜ bot. נמשחו מן הפך were anointed out of a flask, opp. קרן; Meg. 14ᵃ. Ib. (ref. to I Sam. II, 1) רמה קרני ולא רמה פַּכִּי ‘my horn is high’, but not ‘my flask is high.’ Tosef. Succ. III, 10 כמין פי הפך as if coming forth through the mouth of a flask, v. פִּכְפֵּךְ. Neg. XII, 5 חסה התורה … ועל פַּכֹּו the Torah has regard … even for a man’s flask; Sifra M’teorʿa, Neg., ch. III, Par. 5. Gen. R. s. 69, end שופע … כמלא פי הפך the oil was poured down for him from heaven in large drops as if coming out of a flask; Yalk. ib. 120; a. fr.—Pl. פַּכִּים, פַּכִּין. Sabb. 84ᵇ פ׳ קטנים small flasks (into which you cannot dip your finger); B. Kam. 25ᵇ. Ḥull. 91ᵃ (ref. to Gen. XXXII, 25) נשתייר על פ׳ קטנים he remained behind for the sake of some small jars. Kel. II, 2; a. fr. e.g. 1 Samuel 2:1
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 3 distinct written forms H6378 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פַךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 9:3 | 1 |
| פַּ֣ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 9:1 | 1 |
| פַּ֥ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 1 Samuel 10:1 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 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.
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