פות

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פות

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In Biblical Hebrew attested twice ambiguously: In the First Book of Kings 7:50 either “front side” or “socket of the door pin” of a door; in the Book of Isaiah 3:17 skulls of women are made scabby and their פֹּת (pōṯ) bared, where it is natural to assume it to mean “foreheads” rather than “pudenda”; due to the scarcity of genital vocabulary from biblical sources one was enticed to instead find it in reinterpretation, just like אֲבִיּוֹנָה (aḇiyyônâ, “caperberry”) came to mean “orgasm”. So it appears as a technical and cultic term borrowed into Proto-Hebrew from Akkadian 𒊕𒆠 (pūtum, “forehead; front”), from Proto-Semitic *piʔat- (“side, edge; fore; forehead”), the same source as פֵּאָה (pēʾâ, “edge, side, face”).

noun פֹּת · pót · פותות · פֻּתּוֹת

feminine vulva, female genitalia

In English

vulva collectively the external female sexual organs

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"פות." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%AA. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {פות},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%AA},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}