Hinge
פֹּתStrong’s H6596pot
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pot is the Hebrew word usually translated “sockets” and “forehead their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.”
Meaning
- Sockets, hinges, secret parts (meaning uncertain)sockets · secret parts
How it's translated
- and the sockets 1
- forehead their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פֹּת pot · hinge
1) sockets, hinges, secret parts (meaning uncertain) 1a) sockets 1b) secret parts
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hinge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HINGE, noun
hinj. [This word appears to be connected with hang, and with angle, the verb.]
- The hook or joint on which a door or gate turns.
- That on which any thing depends or turns; a governing principle, rule or point.
- A cardinal point; as east, west, north or south. [Little used.]
All definitions and other forms of “hinge”
HINGE, verb transitive
To furnish with hinges.
- To bend. [Little used.]
HINGE, verb intransitive
To stand, depend or turn, as on a hinge The question hinges on this single point.
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.