To open
פָּטוּרStrong’s H6362patur (pa-tur)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Patur is the Hebrew word usually translated “spread out of”, “escaped” and “set free”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.”
Meaning
- Opened(Qal) dismissed · (Hiphil) shoot out
How it's translated
- and spread out of 4
- and he escaped 1
- set free 1
- he dismissed 1
- they make a separation 1
- lets out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 4
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:18And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
- 1 Kings 6:29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
- 1 Kings 6:32The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:35And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
- 1 Chronicles 9:33And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
- 2 Chronicles 23:8So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּטוּר patur · to open
1) opened 1a) (Qal) dismissed 1b) (Hiphil) shoot out
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “open” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OPEN, verb transitive
o'pn.
- To unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or cover and set open; as, to open a door or gate; to open a desk.
- To break the seal of a letter and unfold it.
- To separate parts that are close; as, to open the lips; to open the mouth or eyes or eyelids; to open a book.
- To remove a covering from; as, to open a pit.
All definitions and other forms of “open”
- To cut through; to perforate; to lance; as, to open the skin; to open an abscess.
- To break; to divide; to split or rend; as, the earth was opened in many places by an earthquake; a rock is opened by blasting.
- To clear; to make by removing obstructions; as, to open a road; to open a passage; the heat of spring opens rivers bound with ice.
- To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
- To unstop; as, to open a bottle.
- To begin; to make the first exhibition.
- To show; to bring to view or knowledge.
- To interpret; to explain.“- While he opened to us the Scriptures” Luke 24:32
- To reveal; to disclose.
- To make liberal; as, to open the heart.
- To make the first discharge of artillery; as, to open a heavy fire on the enemy.
- To enter on or begin; as to open a negotiation or correspondence; to open a trade with the Indies.
- To begin to see by the removal of something intercepted the view; as, we sailed round the point and opened the harbor.
OPEN, verb intransitive
o'pn.
- To unclose itself; to be unclosed; to be parted.“The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram” Psalms 106:17
- To begin to appear.
- To commence; to begin. sales of stock open at par.
- To bark; a term in hunting.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.