Quick Definition
hinge
Strong's Definition
a hole, i.e. hinge or the female pudenda
Derivation: or פֹּתָה; (Ezekiel 13:19), from an unused root meaning to open;
KJV Usage: hinge, secret participle
TWOT Reference: 1850
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פֹּת (pot) — hinge. 1) sockets, hinges, secret parts (meaning uncertain) 1a) sockets 1b) secret parts
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f
noun f · מִפְתָּן
forehead, private parts exact meaning unknown; probably: = a part of the human body that is to the front; therefore, either the front of the head or the private parts
1 1KI 7:50 REB "panels for the door" 2 2CH 4:22 RSV ESV "sockets" | MT NIV "doors" NJPS NJB NRSV REB "entrance" = פֶּתַח 3 ISA 3:17 NIV "scalps" NJPS GNT "heads" NJB REB "foreheads" | RSV NRSV ESV "secret parts" CEV "private parts"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פֹּת] n.[f.] pl. i.e. prob. the sockets above and below, in which the door-pivots turned (performing office of mod. hinges); sg. their secret parts, cardo femina base