H6607 H6607
Opening, entrance, doorway; the passage into a tent, house, temple, or city, occasionally the door or gate structure itself.
The standard Hebrew word for an entrance or doorway — the space through which one passes to enter a tent, house, temple, cave, or city. It appears most memorably as 'the entrance of the tent' where Abraham receives his visitors (Gen 18:1) and 'the entrance of the Tent of Meeting' in the Priestly legislation. Spanish entrada-de and French entrée-de consistently mark the spatial-passage sense. A secondary cluster uses it for the door or gate as a physical object — something that can be opened, shut, or smeared with blood (Exod 12:22-23). Gen 4:7's haunting 'sin crouches at the door' exploits this ambiguity between passage and barrier.
Senses
1. entrance or opening — The opening, entryway, or doorway of a tent, tabernacle, temple, house, cave, or city — the space or threshold one passes through to enter. This is the dominant usage across 148 occurrences, typically in construct form ('entrance of the tent,' 'entrance of the gate'). Spanish entrada-de, French entrée-de, and German Eingang-von all render this spatial-passage meaning faithfully. Gen 18:1 places Abraham at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day; Exod 29:4 stations the priests at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. 148×
AR["بابَ", "بابِ", "بَابَ", "بَابُ", "بَابِ", "بَابِ-", "عِنْدَ-بَابِ"]·ben["দরজা", "দরজায়", "দরজায়-", "প্রবেশদ্বার", "প্রবেশদ্বারে"]·DE["Eingang-von", "am-Eingang", "am-Eingang-"]·EN["entrance-of"]·FR["entrance-de", "entrée-de"]·heb["פתח"]·HI["दरवज़े-पर", "दरवज़े-पर-", "द्वार", "द्वार-का", "द्वार-की", "द्वार-के", "द्वार-पर"]·ID["di-pintu", "di-pintu-", "pintu"]·IT["ingresso-di"]·jav["lawang", "lawang-", "wonten-ing-konten", "wonten-ing-lawang"]·KO["문", "문-에서", "문에", "문에서", "문에서-", "문의", "입구", "입구에서"]·PT["a-entrada-de", "entrada-de", "entrada-de-"]·RU["вход", "входа", "входом", "входу", "у-входа"]·ES["entrada-de"]·SW["la-mlango-wa", "mlango", "mlango-wa", "mlangoni", "mlangoni-mwa-", "mlangoni-pa"]·TR["giriş", "girişi", "girişinde", "girişinde-", "girişine", "girişinin", "kapısında"]·urd["دروازے", "دروازے-پر", "دروازے-کا", "دروازے-کے"]
Gen 18:1, Gen 18:10, Gen 19:11, Gen 43:19, Exod 29:4, Exod 29:11, Exod 29:32, Exod 29:42, Exod 33:8, Exod 33:9, Exod 33:10, Exod 33:10 (+38 more)
2. door or gate — The door or gate as a physical structure — something that can be opened, shut, guarded, or marked. By metonymy, the word shifts from the passageway to the closure itself. In Exod 12:22-23, blood is applied to the doorposts and lintel of 'the door' (the structure, not the opening). Gen 4:7 personifies sin crouching 'at the door,' and Gen 6:16 describes the door Noah sets in the ark. Translations here pivot to 'door' or 'gate' (spa puerta, fra porte), distinguishing this from the entrance-passage sense. Job 31:9 extends it figuratively to a neighbor's door as a site of temptation. 16×
AR["أَبوَابُهَا", "أَبْوَابَ", "أَبْوَابَ-", "أَبْوَابِنَا", "أَيَّتُهَا-الْمَدَاخِلُ", "الْ-بَابِ", "الْأَبْوَابِ", "بابَهُ", "بابِ", "بَابِ", "عِنْدَ-الْبَابِ", "لِبابِ", "مِنَ-البابِ", "مِنْ-بَابِ", "وَ-بَابَ"]·ben["অনন্তকালীন-দ্বার", "আমাদের-দরজায়", "এবং-দরজা", "তার-দরজা", "তার-দরজাগুলো", "দরজা", "দরজা-থেকে", "দরজার", "দ্বার", "দ্বারগুলি-", "দ্বারগুলোতে", "দ্বারে", "প্রবেশদ্বারের-জন্য"]·DE["[פתחו]", "[פתחי]", "[פתחיה]", "[פתחים]", "[פתחינו]", "an-der-Tür", "der-Tuer", "doors-von", "oeffnete", "und-eine-Tür", "von-Tuer-von-", "zu-oeffnete"]·EN["and-door-of", "at-the-door", "doors-of", "doors-of-", "for-door-of", "from-door-of-", "gates-of", "her-gates", "his-door", "our-doors", "the-door", "the-door-of", "the-doors"]·FR["de-porte-de-", "entrée", "et-porte-de", "la-porte", "nos-portes", "porte", "son-porte-lui", "à-le-porte"]·heb["ה-פתח", "ו-פתח", "ל-ה-פתח", "ל-פתח", "מ-פתח", "פתח", "פתחו", "פתחי", "פתחי-", "פתחיה", "פתחים", "פתחינו"]·HI["उस-द्वार-पर", "उसके-द्वार", "और-द्वार", "दरवाज़े", "दरवाज़े-से", "दरवाज़ों-", "दरवाजों-के", "द्वार", "द्वार-के", "द्वार-के-लिए", "द्वार-को", "द्वारो", "फाटकों-", "हमारे-द्वारों"]·ID["dan-pintu", "dari-pintu-", "di-pintu", "kami", "pintu", "pintu-pintu", "pintu-pintu-", "pintu-pintu-gerbang", "pintu-pintu-gerbangnya", "pintunya", "sebagai-pintu"]·IT["a-il-porta", "a-ingresso", "da-porta-di-", "e-porta-di", "entrata", "il-porta", "ingresso", "ingresso-nostro", "ingresso-suo"]·jav["gapura-gapuranipun", "gapuranipun", "ing-lawang", "kangge-lawang", "kori", "kori-kita", "lan-lawang", "lawang", "lawang-", "saking-kori-"]·KO["그-문", "그녀의-문들이", "그리고-문", "로-문", "문", "문-들-의", "문-에", "문-을-자기-의", "문들-을", "문들아", "문들에", "문에서", "에-그-문", "우리-문들-에"]·PT["a-entrada", "de-entrada-de-", "e-porta", "nossas-portas", "para-porta-de", "porta", "porta-de", "portas", "portas-de", "portas-suas", "sua-porta", "à-porta", "ó-entradas"]·RU["в-ворота", "ворота-её", "вход-свой", "дверей", "двери", "двери-", "дверьми-нашими", "дверью", "дверям", "за-дверь", "и-дверь", "из-двери-", "как-дверь", "у-двери"]·ES["a-la-puerta", "como-puerta-de", "de-puerta-de-", "entradas-de", "la-puerta", "la-puerta-de", "nuestras-puertas", "puerta", "puerta-de-", "puerta-su", "puertas", "puertas-de", "sus-puertas", "y-puerta-de"]·SW["kama-mlango-wa", "malango-yake", "milango", "milango-ya", "milango-yetu", "mlango", "mlango-wa", "mlango-wake", "mlangoni", "mlangoni-", "mlangoni-pa", "na-mlango-wa"]·TR["açılışlarını-", "kapilari", "kapilarimizin", "kapilarinda", "kapı-olarak", "kapıda", "kapıdan", "kapıları", "kapıların", "kapının", "kapısına", "kapısında", "kapısından-", "kapısını", "ve-kapısını"]·urd["اس-کے-دروازے", "اور-دروازہ", "دروازوں-سے", "دروازہ-اپنا", "دروازے", "دروازے سے", "دروازے-", "دروازے-سے", "دروازے-پر", "دروازے-کے-طور-پر", "دہانوں-کے", "پھاٹکو", "ہمارے-دروازوں"]
Gen 4:7, Gen 6:16, Exod 12:22, Exod 12:23, Job 31:9, Job 31:34, Ps 24:7, Ps 24:9, Prov 5:8, Prov 8:3, Prov 17:19, Song 7:13 (+4 more)
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† פֶּ֫תַח164 n.m. Ez 8:8 (f. 2 S 17:9 but We reads אַחַד for אַחַת, and so AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 86) opening, doorway, entrance;—abs. פ׳ Gn 4:7 +, פָּ֑תַח 19:11 +, הַפֶּ֫תְחָה v 6; cstr. פֶּתַח 18:1 +; sf. פִּתְחוֹ Pr 17:19, פִּתְחָהּ Ez 40:38; pl. פְּתָחִים 1 K 7:5; Pr 8:3; cstr. פִּתְחֵי ψ 24:7 +; sf. פְּתָחָ֑י Pr 8:34, etc.;—doorway of nomad’s tent, פ׳ הָאֹהֶל Gn 18:1, 2, 10 (J); Ex 33:8, 10(E);…