Opening
מִפְתָּחStrong’s H4669miphtach (miph-tach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Miphtach is the Hebrew word usually translated “utterance of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.”
Meaning
- Opening, utterance
How it's translated
- and utterance of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מִפְתָּח miphtach · opening
opening, utterance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “opening” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OPENING, participle present
tense o'pning. Unclosing; unsealing; uncovering; revealing; interpreting.
All definitions and other forms of “opening”
OPENING, noun
o'pning.
- A breach; an aperture; a hole or perforation.
- A place admitting entrance; as a bay or creek.
- Dawn; first appearance or visibleness; beginning of exhibition or discovery.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.