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. Genesis 7:11 נִפְתָּֽחוּ׃ nif.Ta.chu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

  2. Genesis 8:6 וַיִּפְתַּ֣ח vai.yif.Tach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

  3. Genesis 24:32 וַיְפַתַּ֖ח vay.fa.Tach · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him.

  4. Genesis 29:31 וַיִּפְתַּ֖ח vai.yif.Tach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

  5. Genesis 30:22 וַיִּפְתַּ֖ח vai.yif.Tach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

  6. Genesis 41:56 וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח vai.yif.Tach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

  7. Genesis 42:27 וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח vai.yif.Tach · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

  8. Genesis 43:21 וַֽנִּפְתְּחָה֙ va.nif.te.Chah · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by us

    and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

  9. Genesis 44:11 וַֽיִּפְתְּח֖וּ vai.yif.te.Chu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then they hasted, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

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