פִּיחַ
piach · soot
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6368 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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piach (פִּיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “soot”.
Ashes, soot from a furnace. It occurs only in Exodus 9:8 and 9:10.
How to say it
pi·ach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The black dust left in a kiln.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 9:8
YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
- Exodus 9:10
So they took the soot of the kiln and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils with blisters breaking out on people and on animals.