פַּעֲמֹן
bell
‘bell’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (29%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (29%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 2 times (29%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6472 appears — 4 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.
Exodus 4 verses
- Exodus 28:33 וּ/פַעֲמֹנֵ֥י conj + n c mp cs On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round about:
- Exodus 28:34 פַּעֲמֹ֤ן פַּֽעֲמֹ֥ן n c ms cs n c ms cs a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe round about.
- Exodus 39:25 פַעֲמֹנֵ֖י הַ/פַּֽעֲמֹנִ֜ים n c mp cs ptcl def.art + n c mp They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
- Exodus 39:26 פַּעֲמֹ֤ן פַּעֲמֹ֣ן n c ms n c ms a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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.
פעמן (paʻămôn) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “bell.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Exodus 28:33. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6472 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 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: Bell 4×, Bells 2×
- American Standard Version: Bell 4×, Bells 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bells 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bell 4×, A 2×, Bells 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6472 across 7 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 H6472 across 7 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6472 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6472 across 11 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.
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.
- bell
- on high priest's robe
Word origin
n.[m.] bell, on high-p.’s robe (from its stroke, beat);—פ׳ abs. Ex 39:26(×2) cstr. פ׳ זָהָב 28:34(×2); pl. הַפַּעֲמֹנִים 39:25, cstr. פַּעֲמֹנֵי זָהָב 28:33; 39:25.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פעם (paʻam) (H6471) — time.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H6472 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פַּעֲמֹ֤ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 39:26 | 2 |
| הַ/פַּֽעֲמֹנִ֜ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 39:25 | 1 |
| וּ/פַעֲמֹנֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 28:33 | 1 |
| פַעֲמֹנֵ֖י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 39:25 | 1 |
| פַּעֲמֹ֣ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 39:26 | 1 |
| פַּֽעֲמֹ֥ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:34 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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.
