Interpretation
פְּשַׁרStrong’s H6623peshar (pe-shar)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peshar is the Hebrew word usually translated “according to interpretation of”, “interpretation its” and “interpretations”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.”
Meaning
- Interpretation (of dream)
How it's translated
- according to interpretation of 2
- interpretation its 2
- interpretations 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 5
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 40:8And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
- Genesis 40:12And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
- Genesis 40:18And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
- Genesis 41:11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Hebrew dictionary
פְּשַׁר peshar · interpretation
interpretation (of dream) Aramaic of pit.ron (פִּתְרוֹן "interpretation" H6623)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “interpretation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INTERPRETA'TION, noun
[Latin interpretatio.]
- The act of interpreting; explanation of unintelligible words in language that is intelligible. interpretation is the design of translation.
- The act of expounding or unfolding what is not understood or not obvious; as the interpretation of dreams and prophecy.
- The sense given by an interpreter; exposition.
- The power of explaining.
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.