Eating
פְּחֶ֫תֶתStrong’s H6356pechetet (pe-che-tet)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Pechetet is the Hebrew word usually translated “mildew”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.”
Meaning
- A boring or eating out, hole, hollowof leprous decay in garment
How it's translated
- a mildew 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פְּחֶ֫תֶת pechetet · eating
1) a boring or eating out, hole, hollow 1a) of leprous decay in garment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eating” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'ATING, participle present
tense Chewing and swallowing; consuming; corroding.
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.