פִּרְעָתוֹנִי
Pirathonite
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
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6553 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 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.
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 12:13 הַ/פִּרְעָתוֹנִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
- Judges 12:15 הַ/פִּרְעָתוֹנִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 11:31 הַ/פִּרְעָתֹנִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
- 1 Chronicles 27:14 הַ/פִּרְעָתוֹנִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The eleventh [captain] for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
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.
At its core, פרעתוני (Pirʻâthôwnîy) means “Pirathonite.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. Its uses concentrate in Judges (40% of all occurrences). First canonically at Judges 12:13, it enters the text early. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6553 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 2 verses 40%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 40%
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
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: Pirathonite 5×
- American Standard Version: Pirathonite 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pirathonite 3×, Pirathon 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pirathonite 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6553 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6553 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6553 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6553 across 5 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.
- an inhabitant of Pirathon
Word origin
פִּרְעָתוֹנִי adj.gent. of foregoing [ q.df.ad ], cf. פִּרְעָתֹנִי
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פרעתון (Pirʻâthôwn) (H6552) — Pirathon.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H6553 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/פִּרְעָתֹנִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:31 | 1 |
| הַ/פִּרְעָתוֹנִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 12:15 | 1 |
| הַ/פִּרְעָתוֹנִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 27:14 | 1 |
| הַ/פִּרְעָתוֹנִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 12:13 | 1 |
| פִּרְעָ֣תֹנִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:30 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Pirathonite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
(1.) Abdon, the son of Hillel, so called, Judg. 12:13, 15.
(2.) Benaiah the Ephraimite (2 Sam. 23:30), one of David's thirty heroes.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
a native of or dweller in Pirathon. Two such are named in the Bible:--
+ Abdon ben-Hillel. (Judges 12:13,15) + "Benaiah the Pirathonite of the children of Ephraim," (1 Chronicles 27:14)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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.
