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1 Kings 6:8

“The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

פֶּתַחpethach · peh'-thakh
H6607 · Hebrew

Definition: an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way
Derivation: from H6605 (פָּתַח);
KJV renderings: door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place.
Grammar: פֶּ֗תַח — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
Code HNcmsc
Usage: Occurs 164 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:7 Genesis 6:16 Genesis 18:1 Genesis 18:2 Genesis 18:10

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read פֶּתַח here.

Verse 7 Verse 9

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.