פֹּתpôth

i.e.

Pronunciation: pohth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6596

Meanings

probably the sockets above and below, in which the door-pivots turned (performing office of modern hinges) (1 Kings 7:50; Isaiah 3:17)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 7:50 the small bowls, lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold; the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, with their fronts overlaid with gold.
  • Isaiah 3:17 So the Lord will send scabs on her head; the Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.”

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).