פָּתַרpâthar
interpret, (dream)
Pronunciation: paw-thar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6622
Meanings
Qal: active (Genesis 40:22; Genesis 41:13; Genesis 40:16)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 40:8 And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.” “Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”
- Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.
- Genesis 40:22 But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream.
- Genesis 41:8 The next morning Pharaoh was very disturbed by the dreams. So he called for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. When Pharaoh told them his dreams, not one of them could tell him what they meant.
- Genesis 41:12 There was a young Hebrew man with us in the prison who was a slave of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he told us what each of our dreams meant.
- Genesis 41:13 And everything happened just as he had predicted. I was restored to my position as cup-bearer, and the chief baker was executed and impaled on a pole.”
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).