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Hebrew verb · H6475

פָּצָה

patsahpaw-tsaw'

to open

15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pâtsâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6475is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6475

to rend, i.e. open (especially the mouth)

The King James renders it: deliver, gape, open, rid, utter.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

patsah is rendered "to open". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:11Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:11פָּצְתָ֣ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's fifteen uses are in Psalms.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • they have opened3
  • set free me2
  • and it will open1
  • and opening1
  • he opens1
  • I have opened1
  • it has opened1
  • it opened1
  • open1
  • they opened1
  • who sets free1
  • you have opened1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

פָּצַחpatsachto break outUses8
פָּצַרpatsarto pressUses7
פָּצַעpatsato woundUses3
פָּצַלpatsalto peelUses2
פָּצַםpatsamto split openUses1

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • פָּצ֥וּ2
  • הַ֭פּוֹצֶה1
  • וּפֹצֶ֥ה1
  • וּפָצְתָ֨ה1
  • יִפְצֶה־1
  • פְּצֵ֣ה1
  • פָּצ֣וּ1
  • פָּצ֨וּ1
  • פָּצִ֤יתָה1
  • פָּצִ֤יתִי־1
  • פְּצֵ֣נִי1
  • פְּצֵ֥נִי1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVqp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVqv2ms/Sp1bs
  • Hc/Vqq3fs1Hc/Vqq3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqv2ms

Genesis

one use
  • Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

    Genesis 4:11

    • פָּצְתָ֣הpatzetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has opened

Numbers

one use
  • But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

    Numbers 16:30

    • וּפָצְתָ֨הufatzetahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will open

Deuteronomy

one use
  • and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.

    Deuteronomy 11:6

    • פָּצְתָ֤הpatzetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it opened

Judges

two uses
  • As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”

    Judges 11:35

    • פָּצִ֤יתִי־patziti-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have opened
  • “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”

    Judges 11:36

    • פָּצִ֤יתָהpatzitahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have opened

Job

one use
  • So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

    Job 35:16

    • יִפְצֶה־yiftzeh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he opens

Psalms

five uses
  • They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

    Psalms 22:13

    • פָּצ֣וּpatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have opened
  • the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

    Psalms 66:14

    • פָּצ֥וּpatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they opened
  • Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

    Psalms 144:7

    • פְּצֵ֣נִיpetzeniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: set free me
  • to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

    Psalms 144:10

    • הַ֭פּוֹצֶהhapotzehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who sets free
  • Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

    Psalms 144:11

    • פְּצֵ֥נִיpetzeniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: set free me

Isaiah

one use
  • My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”

    Isaiah 10:14

    • וּפֹצֶ֥הufotzehconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and opening

Lamentations

two uses
  • All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

    Lamentations 2:16

    • פָּצ֨וּpatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have opened
  • All our enemies open their mouths against us.

    Lamentations 3:46

    • פָּצ֥וּpatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have opened

Ezekiel

one use
  • And you, son of man, listen to what I tell you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I give you.”

    Ezekiel 2:8

    • פְּצֵ֣הpetzehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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