H6605: פָּתַח
pâthach · pronounced paw-thakh' · “to open”
Definition
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV translates it as: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-) grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to open
1b) (Niphal) to be opened, be let loose, be thrown open
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to free
1c2) to loosen
1c3) to open, open oneself
1d) (Hithpael) to loose oneself
Aramaic equivalent: pe.tach (פְּתַח "to open" H6606)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6605 is translated
- open ×23
- he opened ×17
- it opened ×5
- it will be opened ×5
- i will open ×5
- you will open ×4
- i opened ×4
- he will open ×3
- you will engrave ×3
- certainly to open ×3
- they were opened ×2
- he engraved ×2
Bible verses with H6605 (pâthach)
Pâthach appears in 133 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
- Genesis 24:32
And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
- Genesis 29:31
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
- Genesis 30:22
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
- Genesis 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 42:27
And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
- Genesis 43:21
And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, 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.
- Genesis 44:11
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
- Exodus 2:6
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
- Exodus 21:33
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
- Exodus 28:9
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
- Exodus 28:11
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
- Exodus 28:36
And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
- Exodus 39:6
And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 16:32
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
- Numbers 19:15
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
- Numbers 22:28
And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
- Numbers 26:10
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
- Deuteronomy 15:8
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
- Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
- Deuteronomy 20:11
And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
- Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
- Joshua 8:17
And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth–el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
- Joshua 10:22
Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
All 133 references
- Judges 3:25
- Judges 4:19
- Judges 19:27
- 1 Samuel 3:15
- 1 Kings 7:36
- 1 Kings 8:29
- 1 Kings 8:52
- 1 Kings 20:11
- 2 Kings 9:3
- 2 Kings 9:10
- 2 Kings 13:17
- 2 Kings 15:16
- 2 Chronicles 2:7
- 2 Chronicles 2:14
- 2 Chronicles 3:7
- 2 Chronicles 6:20
- 2 Chronicles 6:40
- 2 Chronicles 7:15
- 2 Chronicles 29:3
- Nehemiah 1:6
- Nehemiah 6:5
- Nehemiah 7:3
- Nehemiah 8:5
- Nehemiah 13:19
- Job 3:1
- Job 11:5
- Job 12:14
- Job 12:18
- Job 29:19
- Job 30:11
- Job 31:32
- Job 32:19
- Job 32:20
- Job 33:2
- Job 38:31
- Job 39:5
- Job 41:14
- Psalms 5:9
- Psalms 30:11
- Psalms 37:14
- Psalms 38:13
- Psalms 39:9
- Psalms 49:4
- Psalms 51:15
- Psalms 78:2
- Psalms 78:23
- Psalms 102:20
- Psalms 104:28
- Psalms 105:20
- Psalms 105:41
- Psalms 106:17
- Psalms 109:2
- Psalms 116:16
- Psalms 118:19
- Psalms 145:16
- Proverbs 24:7
- Proverbs 31:8
- Proverbs 31:9
- Proverbs 31:26
- Song of Solomon 5:2
- Song of Solomon 5:5
- Song of Solomon 5:6
- Song of Solomon 7:12
- Isaiah 5:27
- Isaiah 14:17
- Isaiah 20:2
- Isaiah 22:22
- Isaiah 24:18
- Isaiah 26:2
- Isaiah 28:24
- Isaiah 35:5
- Isaiah 41:18
- Isaiah 45:1
- Isaiah 45:8
- Isaiah 48:8
- Isaiah 50:5
- Isaiah 51:14
- Isaiah 52:2
- Isaiah 53:7
- Isaiah 58:6
- Isaiah 60:11
- Jeremiah 1:14
- Jeremiah 5:16
- Jeremiah 13:19
- Jeremiah 40:4
- Jeremiah 50:25
- Jeremiah 50:26
- Ezekiel 1:1
- Ezekiel 3:2
- Ezekiel 3:27
- Ezekiel 21:22
- Ezekiel 21:28
- Ezekiel 24:27
- Ezekiel 25:9
- Ezekiel 33:22
- Ezekiel 37:12
- Ezekiel 37:13
- Ezekiel 44:2
- Ezekiel 46:1
- Ezekiel 46:12
- Daniel 10:16
- Amos 8:5
- Nahum 2:6
- Nahum 3:13
- Zechariah 3:9
- Zechariah 11:1
- Zechariah 13:1
- Malachi 3:10
Words derived from H6605
יִפְתָּח H3316
Yiphtâch — Iphtah
יִפְתַּח־אֵל H3317
Yiphtach-ʼêl — (Valley of) Iphtahel
מַפְתֵּחַ H4668
maphtêach — key
מִפְתָּח H4669
miphtâch — opening
נֶפְתּוֹחַ H5318
Nephtôwach — Nephtoah
פִּתּוּחַ H6603
pittûwach — engraving
פְּתַח H6606
pᵉthach — to open
פֶּתַח H6607
pethach — entrance
פֵּתַח H6608
pêthach — opening
פְּתִחָה H6609
pᵉthichâh — drawn sword
פִּתְחוֹן H6610
pithchôwn — opening
פְּתַחְיָה H6611
Pᵉthachyâh — Pethahiah