פִּתְרוֹן
pithrôwn · H6623 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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interpretation
Meaning of a dream or vision
ExamplesGenesis 40:5 Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation.
Genesis 40:8 And they said to him, “We have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do interpretations not belong to God? Tell it to me, please.”
Genesis 40:12 Then Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;
How it’s used In 3 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
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- חֲלוֹםdream 2
- הוּhis 2
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- זֶהthis 2
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 3
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- ἑρμηνεία hermēneía · G2058 · translating, interpreting, interpretation
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew פִּתְרוֹן in contexts of dream interpretation and explanation of mysteries; both denote the act or result of interpreting or translating obscure meanings.
- ἐπίλυσις epílysis · G1955 · to explain, meaning, explanation
- Greek term for interpretation/solving (used in 2 Pet 1:20 of prophecy interpretation); semantically overlaps with פִּתְרוֹן as the solution or explanation of something requiring elucidation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- פִּתְרוֹן denotes an interpretation, as of the interpretation each prisoner's dream carries in Genesis 40:5, Joseph's declaration that interpretations belong to God in Genesis 40:8, and the interpretations he gives the cupbearer and baker in Genesis 40:12 and 40:18.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6623. pithron מִּתְרוֺן [Köii. 1, 154] noun masculine interpretation (of a dream), only…
מִּתְרוֺן [Köii. 1, 154] noun masculine interpretation (of a dream), only Genesis 40:41; — construct מִּתְרוֺן Gen 40:5; Gen 41:11; suffix מִּתְרֹנוֺ Gen 40:12, Gen 40:18; plural מִּתְרֹנִים Gen 40:8.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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