King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H6341
Transliteration: pach
Phonetic Spelling: (pakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a bird trap
Meaning: a, sheet, a spring net
Word Summary
pach: a bird trap
Original Word: פַחTransliteration: pach
Phonetic Spelling: (pakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a bird trap
Meaning: a, sheet, a spring net
Strong's Concordance
gin, thin plate, snare From pachach; a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina) -- gin, (thin) plate, snare.
see HEBREW pachach
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6341. pach
I. מַּח noun masculinePsalm 124:7 bird-trap (compare WilkinsonEgyptians (1878) ii, 103, 109 f. DrAmos 3:5 HoffmZAW iii (1883), 101); **compare also BaldenspergerPEF 1905, 38 (pahµ used now of a trap with a net). — ׳פ absolute Hosea 5:1 +, מָּ֑ךְ Jeremiah 48:44 +; construct מַּךְ Hosea 9:8 +; plural מַּחִים Jeremiah 18:22 +; —
1 literal פ ׳יַעֲלֶה Amos 3:5b (as metaphor; v:a strike out ׳פ), Proverbs 7:23; Ecclesiastes 9:12 (with אָחוּז; both in simile).
2 usually figurative (sometimes "" צַמִּים רֶשֶׁת, מוֺקֵשׁ,):
a. of calamities and plots, ׳פ יָקוֺשׁ Hosea 9:8, compare Psalm 91:3; 124:7; ׳פ alone Jeremiah 48:43 = Isaiah 24:17; Job 22:10; Psalm 124:7; Proverbs 22:5; פ ׳טָמַן לְ Jeremiah 18:22; Psalm 140:6; 142:4; פ ׳נָחַן לְ 119:110, פ ׳יָקַשׁ לְ 141:9; פ בְּעָקֵב ׳יאֹחֵז Job 18:9; בֵּמּ ׳יִלָּכֵד Jeremiah 48:44 = Isaiah 24:18.
b. = source or agent of calamity Hosea 5:1; Joshua 23:13 (D), Isaiah 8:14; Psalm 69:23. — 11:6 see מֶּחָם. below
II. [מַּח] noun [masculine] plate of metal; plural פַחִים רִקֻּעֵי Numbers 17:3; construct הַזָּהָב אֶתמַּֿחֵי וַיְרַקְּעוּ Exodus 39:3.
פחם (√ of following; compare probably Arabic be black, Late Hebrew מָּחַם id. (in derived species), מֶּחָם = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic charcoal; Assyrian pêntu (= *pêmtu) glowing coal; Syriac in Lexicons).