Lexical Summary pethach: opening, doorway, entrance Original Word: פֶתַחTransliteration: pethach Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-thakh) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: opening, doorway, entrance Meaning: an opening, door, entrance way Strong's Concordance door, entering in, entrance ry, gate, opening, place From pathach; an opening (literally), i.e. Door (gate) or entrance way -- door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place. see HEBREW pathach Brown-Driver-Briggs H6607. pethach מֶּ֫תַח164 noun masculineEzekiel 8:8 (feminine 2 Samuel 17:9 but We reads אַחַד for אַחַת, and so AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 86) opening, doorway, entrance; — absolute ׳פ Genesis 4:7 +, מָּ֑תַח 19:11 +, הַמֶּ֫תְחָה 19:6; construct מֶּתַח 18:1 +; suffix מִּתְחוֺ Proverbs 17:19, מִּתְחָהּ Ezekiel 40:38; plural מְּתָחִים 1 Kings 7:5; Proverbs 8:3; construct מִּתְחֵי Psalm 24:7 +; suffix מְּתָחָ֑י, Proverbs 8:34, etc.; — door-way of nomad's tent, ׳פ הָאֹהֶל Genesis 18:1-2, 10(J), Exodus 33:8, 10 (E), Numbers 11:10; 16:27(JE), Judges 4:20,compare(without הָאֹהֶל) Genesis 4:7 (in figurative), Job 31:9, 34; of sacred tent, ׳פ הָאֹהָל Exodus 33:9-10, Numbers 12:5(E), 26:36; Numbers 36:37; Num 39:38 (P), Deuteronomy 31:15, usually (P) ׳פ מוֺעֵד אֹהֶל Exodus 29:4 6t. Exodus + 40:6, 29 (׳פ מ אֹהֶל ׳מִשְׁכַּן), Leviticus 1:3 22t. Leviticus; Numbers 3:25 11t. Numbers; Joshua 19:51; 1 Samuel 2:22, compare 1 Chronicles 9:21; הַמִּשְׁכָּן ׳פ Exodus 35:15, compare 40:5, 28 (all P); of court Numbers 3:26 compareNumbers 4:26 and (of temple) Ezekiel 8:7; doorway of (private) house Genesis 19:6, 11 (twice in verse) + 22 t., compare Cant 7:14; in Proverbs 17:19 Frankenb Toy read מּיו; for מִּתְחוֺ of temple 1 Kings 6:33; Ezekiel 8:16, so ׳פ הַבַּית 47:1; Chron Ezekiel 4:22; ׳פ הַדְּבִיר 1 Kings 6:31, ׳פ הַצֵּלָע 6:8; Ezekiel 41:11 compare 41:11; 41:11; plural 1 Kings 7:5; various doorways in Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 40:13 (twice in verse) + 13 t. 40-42 (see also below); doorway of ark Genesis 6:16 (P); of tower Judges 9:52; in wall Ezekiel 8:8; opening (mouth) of cave 1 Kings 19:13; ׳פ הַשַׁעַר opening, i.e. doorway, of gate Ezekiel 40:11; of city ׳פ הָעִיר שַׁעַר, i.e. the outer aperture of the gate Joshua 8:29; 20:4; Judges 9:35, 44; Jeremiah 1:15 (plural), compare 19:2; 1 Kings 22:10 2 Chronicles 18:9; 2 Kings 23:8; Proverbs 1:21; so ׳פ הַשַּׁעַר, Judges 9:40; 2 Samuel 10:8; 11:23; 2 Kings 7:3; 10:8, and (of farm or village) Judges 18:16-17, so ׳פ הָעִיר 1 Kings 17:20; 1 Chronicles 19:6 (= 2 Samuel 10:8 above), compare Genesis 38:14; plural of city gates themselves (poetry) Isaiah 3:26 (personified), ׳פ נְדִיבִים 13:2; עוֺלָם מִּתְחֵי Psalm 24:7; 24:9 ("" שְׁעָרִים); compare figurative מִּתְחֵיפִֿיךָ שְׁמֹר Micah 7:5; also י בֵּית ׳שַׁעַר ׳פ Jeremiah 36:10; Ezekiel 8:14; 10:19; compare 8:3; 11:1; 40:4; 46:3, ׳פ ׳שׁ ׳י Jeremiah 26:10; מְּתָחֶיהָ Micah 5:6 of entrances to a country; figurative ׳פ תִּקְוָה Hosea 2:17 doorway of hope. |
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