Hebrew verb · H6622
פָּתַר
patharpaw-thar'
to interpret
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pâthar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6622is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6622
to open up, i.e. (figuratively) interpret (a dream)
The King James renders it: interpret(-ation, -er).
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
pathar is rendered "to interpret". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 40:8“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
Genesis 40:8וּפֹתֵ֖ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's nine uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and interprets2
- he had interpreted2
- he interpreted2
- and he interpreted1
- interpreted1
- to interpret1
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- וּפֹתֵ֖ר2
- וַיִּפְתָּר־1
- לִפְתֹּ֥ר1
- פּוֹתֵ֥ר1
- פָּתַ֛ר1
- פָּתָ֑ר1
- פָּֽתַר־1
- פָּתָֽר׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVqp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HC/Vqrmsa
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Genesis
nine uses
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
- וּפֹתֵ֖רufoterconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and interprets
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
- פָּתָ֑רpatarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had interpreted
But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
- פָּתַ֛רpatarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had interpreted
In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
- פּוֹתֵ֥רpoterverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: interpreted
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
- וַיִּפְתָּר־vaiyiftor-Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he interpreted
- פָּתָֽר׃patarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he interpreted
And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”
- פָּֽתַר־patar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he interpreted
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
- וּפֹתֵ֖רufoterconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and interprets
- לִפְתֹּ֥רliftorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to interpret
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.