To open
פָּצָהStrong’s H6475patsah (pa-tsah)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Patsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “have opened”, “set free me” and “has opened”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;”
Meaning
- To part, open, separate, set free(Qal)
How it's translated
- they have opened 3
- set free me 2
- has opened 1
- and it will open 1
- it opened 1
- i have opened 1
- you have opened 1
- he opens 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Judges 2
- Lamentations 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 16:30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 11:6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
- Judges 11:35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
- Judges 11:36And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
- Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
- Psalms 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּצָה patsah · to open
1) to part, open, separate, set free 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to open (mouth), utter 1a2) to snatch away, set free
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.