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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #6619 - פִּתֹם

Transliteration

Pithôm

Phonetics

pee-thome'

Origin

of Egyptian derivation

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Pithom = "the city of justice"
1. one of the store-cities which the Pharaoh made the Israelites build

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Exodus 1

BSB (1)

Exodus 1

CSB (1)

Exodus 1

ESV (1)

Exodus 1

KJV (1)

Exodus 1

LEB (1)

Exodus 1

LSB (1)

Exodus 1

N95 (1)

Exodus 1

NAS (1)

Exodus 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Exodus 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מִּתֹם proper name, of a location Pithom, Π(ε)ιθω, Α Πιθωμ (Egyptian Patum, Per-Atum, house of (god) Atum) one of the עָרֵי מִסְכְּנוֺת built by Israel for Pharaoh Exodus 1:11; identification by Naville with Tel el-Maskhkûta, near East end of Wady Tumilat, Naville^{Pithom, 1885} Di-Ry^{on the passage} Di^{SBAk, 1885,889 ff.} Bäd^{Egypt (4). 159}.

פתן (√ of following; meaning dubious; Hilpr^{Babylonian Exped. University of Pennsylvania ix (1898), 53}, compare Assyrian patânu, 'protect,' whence two following, 'serpent' as protector, and 'threshold' as asylum; plausible, but exact meaning of patânu still uncertain).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

פִּתֹם [Pithom], pr.n. of a city of Lower Egypt, situated on the eastern bank of the Nile, Exodus 1:11 Greek Πάτουμος, Herod. ii. 158; Steph. Byz., and omitting the syllable pa (which expresses the Egyptian article), φοῦμ, Itin. Anton. page 163, Wessel. Egypt. ⲑⲟⲙ, and with the art. ⲡⲝ-ⲑⲟⲙ, signifies a narrow place, surrounded by mountains; see Champollion, L’Egypte sous les Pharaons, ii. page 58, seqq.

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List of Word Forms

פִּתֹ֖ם פתם pi·ṯōm piTom piṯōm