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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6609

פְּתִחָה

pethichahpeth-ee-khaw'

drawn sword

1 use in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pᵉthichâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6609is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    Old Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6609

something opened, i.e. a drawn sword

The King James renders it: drawn sword.

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

pethichah is rendered "drawn sword". It stands 1 time in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

The first use

His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

Psalms 55:21פְתִחֽוֹת׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • drawn swords1

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.

פְּתִיpethisimpleUses19
פְּתַחpethachto openUses2
פְּתַיpethaybreadthUses2
פְּתִיגִילpethigilrobeUses1
פְּתַיּוּתpethayuthnaiviteUses1
פְּתַלְתֹּלpethaltoltwistedUses1

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • פְתִחֽוֹת׃1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa

Psalms

one use
  • His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

    Psalms 55:21

    • פְתִחֽוֹת׃fetichotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: drawn swords

The letters

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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