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 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
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.
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.
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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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!”
- פָּצ֨וּpatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have opened
All our enemies open their mouths against us.
- 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.”
- פְּצֵ֣הpetzehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open
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.
