pitom · suddenly

What it means

pitom (פִּתְאוֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “suddenly”.

In an instant.

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. Suddenly, without warning.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• suddenly ×23
• sudden ×2

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Joshua×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×5
• Malachi×1

• Numbers 6:9

  And if someone dies beside him very suddenly and makes unclean his consecrated head, he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

• Numbers 12:4

  And suddenly YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out.

• Joshua 10:9

  So Joshua came upon them suddenly; all night he had gone up from Gilgal.

• Joshua 11:7

  So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fell on them.

• 2 Chronicles 29:36

  Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what Elohim had prepared for the people, for the thing had happened suddenly.

• Job 5:3

  I have seen the fool taking root, and I cursed his dwelling suddenly.

• Job 9:23

  If a scourge kills suddenly, he mocks at the trial of the innocent.

• Job 22:10

  Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden dread troubles you;

• Psalms 64:4

  to shoot from hiding places at the blameless; suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

• Psalms 64:7

  But Elohim shoots them with an arrow; suddenly their wounds come.

• Proverbs 3:25

  Do not be afraid of sudden dread, or of the ruin of the wicked when it comes;

• Proverbs 6:15

  Therefore suddenly his calamity will come; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no healing.

• Proverbs 7:22

  He goes after her suddenly, as an ox to the slaughter goes, and as one in fetters to the correction goes the fool,

• Proverbs 24:22

  for suddenly their calamity will arise, and the ruin of them both, who knows it?

• Ecclesiastes 9:12

  For also the human being does not know his time; like fish that are caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare, so are human beings ensnared at an evil time when it falls on them suddenly.

• Isaiah 29:5

  And the multitude of your strangers will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the tyrants like chaff that passes away; and it will happen in an instant, suddenly.

• Isaiah 30:13

  therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach about to fall, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

• Isaiah 47:11

  And there will come upon you evil whose dawn you will not know; and there will fall upon you disaster that you will not be able to make expiation for; and there will come upon you suddenly ruin that you will not know.

• Isaiah 48:3

  “The former things long ago I declared; and from my mouth they went out, and I made them heard; suddenly I did them, and they came about.

• Jeremiah 4:20

  Breaking upon breaking is proclaimed, for the whole land is devastated; suddenly my tents are devastated, in a moment my curtains.

• Jeremiah 6:26

  Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

• Jeremiah 15:8

  Their widows became more numerous before me than the sand of the seas; I brought upon them, upon the mother of the young man, a destroyer at noonday; I made fall upon her suddenly anguish and terrors.

• Jeremiah 18:22

  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring upon them a raiding band suddenly; for they have dug a pit to capture me, and snares they have hidden for my feet.

• Jeremiah 51:8

  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

• Malachi 3:1

  Look, I am sending my messenger, and he will clear the way before me; and suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Look, he is coming, says YHWH Tsevaot.