STRONGS NUMBER H6596


Word Summary
poth: perhaps a hinge
Original Word: פֹת
Transliteration: poth
Phonetic Spelling: (pohth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: perhaps a hinge
Meaning: a hole, hinge, the female pudenda
Strong's Concordance
hinge, secret participle

Or pothah (Ezek. 13:19) {po-thaw'}; from an unused root meaning to open; a hole, i.e. Hinge or the female pudenda -- hinge, secret participle

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6596. poth

[מֹּת‎] noun [feminine] plural הַבַּיִת לְדַלְתוֺת הַמֹּתוֺת1 Kings 7:50 i.e. probably the sockets above and below, in which the door-pivots turned (performing office of modern hinges); singular suffix מֳּתְהֵןIsaiah 3:17 (Ges§ 91f), probably, si vera lectio, their secret parts, cardo femina (so Thes and most); but read perhaps חֶרְמַּתְהֵן‎ BachmSK. 1894, 650 Kit (in Di) Marti; > מִּאַתְהֵן‎ StaZAW vi (1886), 336, compare ᵑ9‎ Di.

מְּתָאיִם‎ see I. מֶּ֫תִי‎ below I. פתה‎. below

מִּתְאֹם‎ see מֶּתַע‎.