pituach · engraving

What it means

pituach (פִּתּוּחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “engraving”.

Carved work.

How to say it

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

1. Something cut into stone, metal or wood.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• engravings ×8
• engraving ×2
• carvings ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 28:11

  As the work of a stonecutter, with engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; mounted in settings of gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 28:21

  The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with engravings of a signet, each with its name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

• Exodus 28:36

  You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, with engravings of a signet, ‘Holiness to YHWH.’

• Exodus 39:6

  And they made the onyx stones, set in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.

• Exodus 39:14

  And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with the engravings of a seal, each according to its name, for the twelve tribes.

• Exodus 39:30

  And they made the plate of the holy diadem of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription with the engravings of a seal: “Holiness to YHWH.”

• 1 Kings 6:29

  And all the walls of the house all around he carved with engravings of carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

• 2 Chronicles 2:7

  So now send me a wise man to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, with the wise men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared.

• 2 Chronicles 2:14

  the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre; he knows how to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, and to engrave any engraving and to devise any design that may be assigned to him, with your wise men and the wise men of my lord David your father.

• Psalms 74:6

  And now its carvings, all together, with ax and hammers they strike down.

• Zechariah 3:9

  For look, the stone that I have set before Joshua: on one stone seven eyes; look, I am engraving its engraving, declares YHWH Tsevaot, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.