Hebrew verb · H6617
פָּתַל
pathalpaw-thal'
to twist
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pâthal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6617is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6617
to twine, i.e. (literally) to struggle or (figuratively) be (morally) tortuous
The King James renders it: (shew self) froward, shew self unsavoury, wrestle.
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
pathal is rendered "to twist". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:8Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
Genesis 30:8נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּי
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
- you show yourself twisted2
- a twisted1
- I have wrestled1
- tortuous1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- נִפְתָּ֥ל1
- נִפְתָּלִ֣ים1
- נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּי1
- תִּתַּפָּֽל׃1
- תִּתְפַּתָּֽל׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVti2ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural1HVNrmpa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
Genesis
one use
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
- נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּיniftaltiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have wrestled
2 Samuel
one use
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- תִּתַּפָּֽל׃titapalverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you show yourself twisted
Job
one use
He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
- נִפְתָּלִ֣יםniftalimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: tortuous
Psalms
one use
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- תִּתְפַּתָּֽל׃titpatalverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you show yourself twisted
Proverbs
one use
All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
- נִפְתָּ֥לniftalverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a twisted
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.