פָּתַחpâthach
פָּתַח: open
Pronunciation: paw-thakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6605
Meanings
Qal: open (2 Kings 15:16; Exodus 21:33; Nehemiah 13:19)
Niph`al: be opened (Isaiah 5:27; Ezekiel 24:27; Ezekiel 44:2)
Pi`el: loose (Job 30:11; Job 12:18; Isaiah 28:24)
1. free, i.e. ungird, camels (Genesis 24:32; Isaiah 45:1; Psalms 105:20)
2. loosen, (and remove) (Isaiah 20:2; Psalms 30:12; 1 Kings 20:11)
3. open (Isaiah 60:11; Job 41:6; Isaiah 48:8)
Hithpa`el: loosen (Isaiah 52:2)
פָּתַח: Pi`el: engrave (2 Chronicles 3:7; 1 Kings 7:36; Exodus 28:11)
Pu`al: engraved (Exodus 39:9)
: open
Pe`al: were opened (Daniel 6:11; Daniel 7:10)
Same root
- יִפְתָּחYiphtâch · H3316Jiphtach, an Israelite; also a place in Palestine
- יִפְתַּח־אֵלYiphtach-ʼêl · H3317Jiphtach-el, a place in Palestine
- מַפְתֵּחַmaphtêach · H4668an opener, i.e. a key
- מִפְתָּחmiphtâch · H4669an aperture, i.e. (figuratively) utterance
- נֶפְתּוֹחַNephtôwach · H5318Nephtoach, a place in Palestine
- פִּתּוּחַpittûwach · H6603sculpture (in low or high relief or even intaglio)
- פְּתַחpᵉthach · H6606to open
- פֶּתַחpethach · H6607an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way
Where it appears
Appears 144 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 7:11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
- Genesis 8:6 After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat
- Genesis 24:32 So the man went home with Laban, and Laban unloaded the camels, gave him straw for their bedding, fed them, and provided water for the man and the camel drivers to wash their feet.
- Genesis 29:31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.
- Genesis 30:22 Then God remembered Rachel’s plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children.
- Genesis 41:56 So with severe famine everywhere, Joseph opened up the storehouses and distributed grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.
See every passage
- Genesis 7:11, 8:6, 24:32, 29:31, 30:22, 41:56, 42:27, 43:21, 44:11
- Exodus 2:6, 21:33, 28:9, 28:11, 28:36, 39:6
- Numbers 16:32, 19:15, 22:28, 26:10
- Deuteronomy 15:8, 15:11, 20:11, 28:12
- Joshua 8:17, 10:22
- Judges 3:25, 4:19, 19:27
- 1 Samuel 3:15
- 1 Kings 7:36, 8:29, 8:52, 20:11
- 2 Kings 9:3, 9:10, 13:17, 15:16
- 2 Chronicles 2:7, 2:14, 3:7, 6:20, 6:40, 7:15, 29:3
- Nehemiah 1:6, 6:5, 7:3, 8:5, 13:19
- Job 3:1, 11:5, 12:14, 12:18, 29:19, 30:11, 31:32, 32:19, 32:20, 33:2, 38:31, 39:5, 41:14
- Psalms 5:9, 30:11, 37:14, 38:13, 39:9, 49:4, 51:15, 78:2, 78:23, 102:20, 104:28, 105:20, 105:41, 106:17, 109:2, 116:16, 118:19, 145:16
- Proverbs 24:7, 31:8, 31:9, 31:26
- Song of Solomon 5:2, 5:5, 5:6, 7:12
- Isaiah 5:27, 14:17, 20:2, 22:22, 24:18, 26:2, 28:24, 35:5, 41:18, 45:1, 45:8, 48:8, 50:5, 51:14, 52:2, 53:7, 58:6, 60:11
- Jeremiah 1:14, 5:16, 13:19, 40:4, 50:25, 50:26
- Ezekiel 1:1, 3:2, 3:27, 21:22, 21:28, 24:27, 25:9, 33:22, 37:12, 37:13, 44:2, 46:1, 46:12
- Daniel 10:16
- Amos 8:5
- Nahum 2:6, 3:13
- Zechariah 3:9, 11:1, 13:1
- Malachi 3:10
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).