פִּתּוּחַ
engraving
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 8 times (73%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (9%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (9%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6603 appears — 11 distinct verses across 5 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.
Exodus 6 verses
- Exodus 28:11 פִּתּוּחֵ֣י n c mp cs With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
- Exodus 28:21 פִּתּוּחֵ֤י n c mp cs The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 28:36 פִּתּוּחֵ֣י n c mp cs "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.'
- Exodus 39:6 פִּתּוּחֵ֣י n c mp cs They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 39:14 פִּתּוּחֵ֤י n c mp cs The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 39:30 פִּתּוּחֵ֣י n c mp cs They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO YAHWEH."
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:7 פִּתּוּחִ֑ים n c mp Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all manner of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 פִּתּ֔וּחַ n c ms the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
Psalms 1 verse
Zechariah 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.
“engraving” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun פתוח (pittûwach). It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 55% of its uses. It turns up in 11 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 28:11. It clusters with פתח, מפתח and מפתח under a shared root. See the sense tree, 11-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6603 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 6 verses 55%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 18%
- 1 Kings 1 verse 9%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 55%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 27%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 18%
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: Like the engravings 4×
- American Standard Version: Like the engravings 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Carvings 1×, Engraved 1×, Engraves 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Engraving 2×, Engravings 2×, Engravings of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6603 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6603 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6603 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6603 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- engraving, carving
Word origin
n.m. engraving;—abs. פ׳ 2 Ch 2:13; sf. פִּתֻּחָהּ Zc 3:9; elsewhere pl. פִּתּוּחִים 2 Ch 2:6, etc.;—on (wood overlaid with) metal, פִּתּוּחֵי מִקְלְעוֹת כְּרוּבִים 1 K 6:29 (see v 21, 22), in temple, so ψ 74:6; on stone Zc 3:9, especially פִּתּוּחֵי חֹתָם Ex 28:11, 21, 36; 39:6, 14, 30; in gen. 2 Ch 2:6, 13.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פתח (pâthach) (H6605) — to open.
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.
פָּתוּחַ
- (פָּתַח) opening, open top. Sifré Num. 126 (ref. to פתוח, Num. XIX, 15) כלי … דרך פְּתוּחוֹ a vessel that receives uncleanness through its open top; ib. על פתוחו אמרתי וכ׳ I speak (the text speaks) only of the open top (inside), but not of the entire vessel; (Yalk. Num. 762 פִּתְחוֹ).—[Ib. פ׳ זה העורף, read: פָּתִיל.] e.g. Numbers 19:15
פִּתּוּחַ
- , v. sub פִּיתּ׳.
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 7 distinct written forms H6603 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פִּתּוּחֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 28:11 | 4 |
| פִּתּוּחֵ֤י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 28:21 | 2 |
| פִּתּ֔וּחַ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 2:14 | 1 |
| פִּתֻּחָ֗/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Zechariah 3:9 | 1 |
| פִּתּוּחִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 2:7 | 1 |
| פִּתּוּחֵי֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Kings 6:29 | 1 |
| פִּתּוּחֶ֣י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 74:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6603, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מפתח maphtêach H4668 key
- מפתח miphtâch H4669 opening
- פתח pᵉthach H6606 to open
- פתח pethach H6607 doorway
- פתח pêthach H6608 opening
- פתחה pᵉthichâh H6609 sword
- פתחון pithchôwn H6610 opening
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יפתח Yiphtâch H3316 Jephthah
- יפתחאל Yiphtach-ʼêl H3317 Jiphthah-el
- נפתוח Nephtôwach H5318 Nephtoah
- פתחיה Pᵉthachyâh H6611 Pethahiah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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.
