פעמון

Derived from פָּעַם (pa'ám, “to strike, beat”), as a bell produces sound when it is struck. By surface analysis, פַּעַם (pá'am, noun) +‎ ־וֹן (-ón).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /pa(ʔ)aˈmon/, /paʕaˈmon/

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פַּעֲמוֹן • (pa'amón) m (plural indefinite פַּעֲמוֹנִים, singular construct פַּעֲמוֹן־, plural construct פַּעֲמוֹנֵי־)

1. (music) bell (a percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck)
   • Tanach, Exodus 39:25, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיַּעֲשׂוּ פַעֲמֹנֵי זָהָב טָהוֹר וַיִּתְּנוּ אֶת־הַפַּעֲמֹנִים בְּתוֹךְ הָרִמֹּנִים עַל־שׁוּלֵי הַמְּעִיל סָבִיב בְּתוֹךְ הָרִמֹּנִים׃

     And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates:

2. gong

• Like other words that start with ב,‎ ג,‎ ד,‎ כ,‎ פ,‎ or ת, this term's initial letter takes a dagesh lene. In older texts, that dagesh is usually dropped when the word is preceded, in the same phrase, by a word ending in a mater lectionis; in modern texts, the dagesh is usually preserved even in such a case. Likewise, in older texts, the dagesh is always dropped when the word is prefixed by an indefinite ב־‏,‎ כ־‏,‎ or ל־‏, or by ו־‏; in modern speech, the dagesh is often preserved in such a case. (After the definite ב־‏,‎ כ־‏,‎ and ל־‏, and after the prefixes ה־‏,‎ מ־‏,‎ and ש־‏, there is a dagesh forte, as described in the usage notes for those prefixes.)

• פַּעֲמוֹנָה (pa'amoná)
• פַּעֲמוֹנִי (pa'amoní)

• H6472 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “פַּעֲמוֹן”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 518c
• “פעמון” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• פעמון on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he