פִּתְרוֹן
interpretation
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
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 4 times (80%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6623 appears — 5 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.
Genesis 5 verses
- Genesis 40:5 כְּ/פִתְר֣וֹן prep + n c ms cs They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
- Genesis 40:8 פִּתְרֹנִ֔ים n c mp They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
- Genesis 40:12 פִּתְרֹנ֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.
- Genesis 40:18 פִּתְרֹנ֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days.
- Genesis 41:11 כְּ/פִתְר֥וֹן prep + n c ms cs We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
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.
פתרון (pithrôwn) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “interpretation.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 40:5. It clusters with פתר, פשר and צבא under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6623 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.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 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
- Genesis 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 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: According to the interpretation 2×, Is the interpretation 2×
- American Standard Version: According to the interpretation 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Had its own meaning 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Interpretation 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6623 across 5 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 H6623 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H6623 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6623 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- interpretation
Word origin
פִּתְרוֹן n.m. interpretation (of a dream), only Gn 40, 41
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פתר (pâthar) (H6622) — to interpret.
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.
*פִּתְרוֹן I
- (cmp. preced.) plate, tablet, merchant’s dish (in which the various coins are arranged). Tanḥ. Ki Thissa, ed. Bub. 1 (expl. אגן הסהר, Cant. VII, 3, with play on סהר and סחר) פ׳ של פרגמטיא וכ׳ the plate used in business, whatever one needs, comes out of it; [read:] ואין הלשון אגן אלא אשון פ׳ and the word aggan means dish (ref. to Ex. XXIV, 6); Yalk. Cant. 992 פתרין. e.g. Song of Solomon 7:3
פִּתְרוֹן II
- interpretation. Ber. 55ᵇ כל אחד … ופ׳ חלומו וכ׳ each was shown his own dream and the interpretation of the other man’s dream. Gen. R. s. 89; a. e.
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 4 distinct written forms H6623 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פִּתְרֹנ֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 40:12 | 2 |
| כְּ/פִתְר֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 40:5 | 1 |
| כְּ/פִתְר֥וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 41:11 | 1 |
| פִּתְרֹנִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 40:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6623, 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
Derived from this word
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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.
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