פָּתַח

pa.tach · to open

Hebrew · Strong's H6605 · Verb · Sounds like: paw-thakh' · 144 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to open H6605A 135
  • to engrave H6605B 9

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve; appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-) grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
פָּתַח vb. open
Qal open sack
Niph. be opened
Pi. be opened
1. free, i.e. ungird, camels
2. loosen (and remove) sack-cloth
3. open gates, doors
Hithp. loosen thee the fetters of thy neck
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[פָּתַח] vb. Pi. engrave
Pu. stones engraved with the engravings of a signet.

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:7 לְפַתֵּ֣חַ le.fa.Te.ach · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that knoweth how to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

  2. 2 Chronicles 2:14 וּלְפַתֵּ֙חַ֙ u.le.fa.Te.ach · The “to do” form of an action: strong action

    the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed unto him with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David thy father.

  3. 2 Chronicles 3:7 וּפִתַּ֥ח u.fi.Tach · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.

  4. 2 Chronicles 6:20 פְתֻח֜וֹת fe.tu.Chot · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place.

  5. 2 Chronicles 6:40 פְּתֻח֔וֹת pe.tu.Chot · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    Now, O my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place.

  6. 2 Chronicles 7:15 פְתֻח֔וֹת fe.tu.Chot · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place.

  7. 2 Chronicles 29:3 פָּתַ֛ח pa.Tach · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.

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