To open wide
פָּתָהStrong’s H6601patah (pa-tah)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Patah is the Hebrew word usually translated “entice”, “deceive” and “deceive him”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”
Meaning
- To be spacious, be open, be wide(Qal) to be spacious or open or wide · (Hiphil) to make spacious, make open
- To be simple, entice, deceive, persuade(Qal) · (Niphal) to be deceived, be gullible · (Piel) · (Pual)
How it's translated
- entice 2
- will he deceive 2
- i will deceive him 2
- you will deceive 2
- he will be deceived 2
- may he make spacious 1
- he will seduce 1
- it should be deceived 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 5
- 1 Kings 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Job 3
- Judges 2
- Jeremiah 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:16And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
- Deuteronomy 11:16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Judges 14:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
- Judges 16:5And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
- 2 Samuel 3:25Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
- 1 Kings 22:20And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּתָה patah · to open wide
1) to be spacious, be open, be wide 1a) (Qal) to be spacious or open or wide 1b) (Hiphil) to make spacious, make open
פָּתָה patah · to entice
1) to be simple, entice, deceive, persuade 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be open-minded, be simple, be naive 1a2) to be enticed, be deceived 1b) (Niphal) to be deceived, be gullible 1c) (Piel) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to persuade, seduce 1c2) to deceive 1d) (Pual) 1d1) to be persuaded 1d2) to be deceived
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “entice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENTI'CE, verb transitive
[Latin titio, a firebrand.]
- To incite or instigate, by exciting hope or desire; usually in a bad sense; as, to entice one to evil.“My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not” Proverbs 1:10
- To tempt; to incite; to urge or lead astray.“Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed” James 1:14
- To incite; to allure; in a good sense.
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.