Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4668
מַפְתֵּחַ
maphteachmaf-tay'-akh
key
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maphtêach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4668is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4668
an opener, i.e. a key
The King James renders it: key.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maphteach is rendered "key". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 3:25So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.
Judges 3:25הַמַּפְתֵּ֙חַ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the key2
- key of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמַּפְתֵּ֙חַ֙1
- הַמַּפְתֵּ֖חַ1
- מַפְתֵּ֥חַ1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Judges
one use
So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.
- הַמַּפְתֵּ֙חַ֙hamafteachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the key
1 Chronicles
one use
They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.
- הַמַּפְתֵּ֖חַhamafteachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the key
Isaiah
one use
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
- מַפְתֵּ֥חַmafteachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: key of
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.