Hebrew adv · H6597
פִּתְאוֹם
pithompith-ome'
suddenly
25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pithʼôwm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6597is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6597
instantly
The King James renders it: straightway, sudden(-ly).
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
pithom is rendered "suddenly". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 6:9If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
Numbers 6:9פִּתְאֹ֔ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- suddenly23
- and suddenly1
- in suddenness1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- פִּתְאֹ֑ם5
- פִּתְאֹ֥ם3
- פִּתְאֹֽם׃3
- פִּתְאֹ֔ם2
- פִּתְאֹ֛ם2
- בְּפִתְאֹ֖ם1
- וּפִתְאֹם֩1
- פִּתְא֑וֹם1
- פִ֭תְאֹם1
- פִתְאֹ֔ם1
- פִּתְאֹ֗ם1
- פִּ֭תְאֹם1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adverb23HD
- conjunction (“and”) + adverb1HC/D
- preposition + adverb1HR/D
Numbers
two uses
If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
- פִּתְאֹ֔םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
And suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,
- פִּתְאֹ֗םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Joshua
two uses
After marching all night from Gilgal, Joshua caught them by surprise.
- פִּתְאֹ֑םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
So by the waters of Merom, Joshua and his whole army came upon them suddenly and attacked them,
- פִּתְאֹ֑םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
2 Chronicles
one use
Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had prepared for the people, because everything had been accomplished so quickly.
- בְּפִתְאֹ֖םbefitompreposition + adverbtagged: in suddenness
Job
three uses
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- פִתְאֹֽם׃fitomadverbtagged: suddenly
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
- פִּתְאֹ֑םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;
- פִּתְאֹֽם׃pitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Psalms
two uses
ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
- פִּתְאֹ֥םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
- פִּתְא֑וֹםpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Proverbs
four uses
Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
- פִּתְאֹ֑םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
- פִּ֭תְאֹםpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
- פִּ֫תְאֹ֥םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?
- פִ֭תְאֹםfitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Ecclesiastes
one use
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- פִּתְאֹֽם׃pitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Isaiah
four uses
But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- פִּתְאֹֽם׃pitomadverbtagged: suddenly
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
- פִּתְאֹ֥םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
- פִּתְאֹ֛םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
- פִּתְאֹ֥םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Jeremiah
five uses
Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
- פִּתְאֹם֙pitomadverbtagged: suddenly
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- פִתְאֹ֔םfitomadverbtagged: suddenly
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- פִּתְאֹ֔םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
- פִּתְאֹ֑םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
- פִּתְאֹ֛םpitomadverbtagged: suddenly
Malachi
one use
“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- וּפִתְאֹם֩ufitomconjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and suddenly
The letters
Gematria 527· 1,087 mispar gadol
Where it leads
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.