Word

אַמְתַּחַת

ʼamtachath · H572 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences

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Thing

Bag, sack, money bag, pursePersonal45 verses

Meanings

sack

Large bag; for storing and/or conveying goods

Examples
Genesis 42:27 But when one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed at the overnight campsite, he saw his money; and behold, it was in the opening of his sack!
Genesis 42:28 So he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned, and look, it is right in my sack!” Then their hearts sank, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
Genesis 43:12 “And take double the money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was returned in the opening of your sacks; perhaps it was a mistake.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

15 occurrences in 7 groups

הוּhis 5
נוּour 4
כֶםyour 2
בִּנְיָמִיןBenjamin 1
אִישׁman, person, each 1
קָטָןsmall 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

פָּתַחto open 2
יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
מָלֵאto be full, to fill 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 9

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 1 groups

פֶּהmouth 6

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Containers001003001001003: אַמְתַּחַת names the sack in which Joseph's brothers carried grain from Egypt, a container for holding goods.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָתַח mâthach · H4969 · to spread out · 1×אַמְתַּחַתʼamtachath · H572

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H572. amtachath אַמְתַּ֫חַת noun feminine sack, only Genesis 42-44; — ׳א construction Gen…

H572. amtachath
אַמְתַּ֫חַת noun feminine sack, only Genesis 42-44; — ׳א construction Gen 44:2, Gen 44:12; suffix אַמְתַּחְתִּי Gen 42:28, אַמְתַּחְתּוֺ Gen 42:27 Gen 42:2t.; plural construct אַמְתְּחֹת Gen 44:1; suffix אַמְתְּחֹתֵינוּ Gen 43:18 Gen 43:3t.; אַמְתְּחֹתֵיכֶם Gen 43:12, Gen 43:23; — sack (s) in which brethren of Joseph carried corn from Egypt; in phrase אַמ ׳בְּטִי Gen 42:27 in the mouth of the sack, so Gen 43:12, Gen 43:21; Gen 44:1-2, Gen 44:8; elsewhere Gen 42:28; Gen 43:18, Gen 43:21, Gen 43:22, Gen 43:23; Gen 44:1, Gen 44:11, Gen 44:11, Gen 44:12 (all J).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Containers15 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0