פִּתְאֹם pitom
Hebrew word for “suddenly” · Strong’s H6597 · used 25 times in 25 verses
Meaning
adv; 1) suddenly, surprisingly; subst; 2) suddenness
How it is translated
Glosses given for pitom in context, with how often each is used:
- suddenly 24
- suddenness 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Proverbs | 4 | 0.6 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Numbers | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Joshua | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Malachi | 1 | 1.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Psalms 64 (2), Numbers 6 (1), Numbers 12 (1), Joshua 10 (1), Joshua 11 (1), 2 Chronicles 29 (1), Job 5 (1), Job 9 (1), Job 22 (1), Proverbs 3 (1)
Forms
- פתאם 22
- בפתאם 1
- פתאום 1
- ופתאם 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with pitom more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- פֶּתַע peta “suddenness” 4
- נָפַל naphal “to fall” 6
- פַּח pach “snare” 3
- שָׁדַד shadad “to ruin” 3
- שׁוֹאָה shoah “devastation” 2
- אֵיד ed “calamity” 2
- אֱוִיל evil “fool(ish)” 2
- שֶׁבֶר shever “breaking” 2
- פַּחַד pachad “dread” 2
- יָרָה yarah “to show” 2
- כֵּן ken “so” 3
- שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 2
Key verses
The verses using pitom that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 5:3 — I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Psalms 64:7 — But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
- Proverbs 3:25 — Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 — For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in…
- Isaiah 29:5 — Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be…
- Isaiah 30:13 — Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Isaiah 48:3 — I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
- Jeremiah 4:20 — Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 6:26 — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the…
- Jeremiah 18:22 — Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
- Jeremiah 51:8 — Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
- Malachi 3:1 — Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of…
See all 25 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.