פֶּתַחpethach

opening, doorway, entrance, entrances (Ezekiel 8:8; 2 Samuel 17:9; Genesis 4:7; Genesis 19:11; Genesis 19:6)

Pronunciation: peh'-thakh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6607

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 164 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:7 You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.”
  • Genesis 6:16 Leave an 18-inch opening below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.
  • Genesis 18:1 The Lord appeared again to Abraham near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. One day Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day.
  • Genesis 18:2 He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
  • Genesis 18:10 Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!” Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.
  • Genesis 19:6 So Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting the door behind him.
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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).