פָּנַק
to pamper
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6445 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Proverbs 1 verse
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.
פנק (pânaq) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to pamper.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Proverbs dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Proverbs 29:21. 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 H6445 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Proverbs 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: He that delicately bringeth up 1×
- American Standard Version: He that delicately bringeth up 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pampered 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pampering 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6445 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6445 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6445 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6445 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- (Piel) to indulge, pamper, bring up, treat delicately
Word origin
[ פָּנַק ] vb. Pi. indulge, pamper;— Pr 29:21
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
פָּנַק
- [to go out,] to be a freeman; to live in luxury (cmp. חָטָא I).
- 1. to treat as a freeman, to indulge, spoil by indulgence. Gen. R. s. 22 (ref. to Prov. XXIX, 21) שמְפַנֵּק וכ׳, v. מָנוֹן; Yalk. Prov. 962 (ib. 961 ממתק). e.g. Proverbs 29:21
- 2. to treat tenderly; to cultivate, improve, embellish. Sifré Deut. 306 מְפַנְּקִים; Yalk. ib. 942, v. עָדַן; a. e.—Part. pass. מְפוּנָּק delicately reared. Mekh. Mishp. s. 8, v. עָדַן; Yalk. Ex. 339. Lev. R. s. 19 היה מפ׳ ומת בידם he was delicate (unused to hardship), and died under their hands.
פְּנַק
- Pa. פַּנֵּיק same. Targ. Is. XXIII, 4. Targ. Esth. II, 9. Ib. 12; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְפַנַּק q. v.—V. אִסְפְּנִיקָא.
- 1. to delight one’s self. Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 4; 11; a. fr.
- 2. to play the nobleman, be imperious. Targ. Prov. XXIX, 21 מִתְפְּנֵיק מן וכ׳ he who plays the gentleman in his youth, will become a servant and finally be driven out (h. text מְפַנֵּק).
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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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