Hebrew verb · H6491
פָּקַח
paqachpaw-kakh'
to open
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pâqach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6491is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6491
to open (the senses, especially the eyes); figuratively, to be observant
The King James renders it: open.
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
paqach is rendered "to open". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Six of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:5וְנִפְקְח֖וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- open6
- and he opened4
- and they were opened1
- and they will be opened1
- do you open1
- he opens1
- I will open1
- opened1
- opening1
- they are open1
- they will be opened1
- to open1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- וַיִּפְקַ֤ח3
- פְּקַ֧ח2
- אֶפְקַ֣ח1
- וַיִּפְקַ֥ח1
- וְנִפְקְח֖וּ1
- וַתִּפָּקַ֙חְנָה֙1
- לִפְקֹ֖חַ1
- פָּק֥וֹחַ1
- פְּקַ֥ח1
- פְּקַ֖ח1
- פְּקַ֣ח1
- פָּקַ֣ח1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular6HVqv2ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms4Hc/Vqw3ms
- Hc/VNq3cp1Hc/VNq3cp
- Hc/VNw3fp1Hc/VNw3fp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural1HVNi3fp
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine plural1HVqsfpa
Genesis
three uses
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- וְנִפְקְח֖וּvenifkechuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be opened
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
- וַתִּפָּקַ֙חְנָה֙vatipakachnahHc/VNw3fptagged: and they were opened
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
- וַיִּפְקַ֤חvaiyifkachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he opened
2 Kings
six uses
Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
- וַיִּפְקַ֥חvaiyifkachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he opened
Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
- פְּקַח־pekach-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open
- וַיִּפְקַ֤חvaiyifkachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he opened
When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.
- פְּקַ֥חpekachverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open
- וַיִּפְקַ֤חvaiyifkachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he opened
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
- פְּקַ֧חpekachverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open
Job
two uses
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- פָּקַ֣חְתָּpakachtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you open
He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
- פָּקַ֣חpakachverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he opens
Psalms
one use
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
- פֹּ֘קֵ֤חַpokeachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: opening
Proverbs
one use
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
- פְּקַ֖חpekachverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open
Isaiah
four uses
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
- תִּפָּקַ֖חְנָהtipakachnahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will be opened
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
- פְּקַ֧חpekachverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
- לִפְקֹ֖חַlifkoachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to open
Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
- פָּק֥וֹחַpakoachverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: they are open
Jeremiah
one use
the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
- פְקֻח֗וֹתfekuchotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: opened
Daniel
one use
Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
- פְּקַ֣חpikchahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: open
Zechariah
one use
On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and every rider with madness. I will keep a watchful eye on the house of Judah, but I will strike with blindness all the horses of the nations.
- אֶפְקַ֣חʾefkachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.