פַּח
pach · pakh
a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6351 (פָּחַח);
a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)
- a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin)
- also, a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: gin, (thin) plate, snare.
Letters
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › to separate and protect
To speak, the word that works to separate and protect.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פַּח above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
27 occurrences · 27 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a snare4 · 15%
- in the snare3 · 11%
- snares2 · 7%
- and the snare2 · 7%
- thin plates1 · 4%
- plates1 · 4%
- you; but they shall be snares1 · 4%
- the gin1 · 4%
- therefore snares1 · 4%
- become a snare1 · 4%
- thee from the snare1 · 4%
- out of the snare1 · 4%
- the snare1 · 4%
- me from the snares1 · 4%
- to the snare1 · 4%
- and snares1 · 4%
- for a gin1 · 4%
- is toward you, because ye have been a snare1 · 4%
- is a snare1 · 4%
- in a snare1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.