Entrance
פֶּ֫תַחStrong’s H6607petach (pe-tach)
Appears in 154 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Petach is the Hebrew word usually translated “entrance of”, “entrance” and “opening of”. It appears in 154 verses of the Old Testament.
“If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”
Meaning
- Opening, doorway, entrance
How it's translated
- entrance of 92
- the entrance 10
- opening of 9
- and entrance of 4
- at entrance of 4
- for entrance of 4
- entrance 3
- and from entrance of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 24
- Ezekiel 23
- Exodus 20
- Numbers 17
- Genesis 9
- Judges 9
24 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 6:16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
- Genesis 18:1And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- Genesis 18:2And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
- Genesis 18:10And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 19:6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
- Genesis 19:11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
All 154 verses, by book
- Exodus 20
- 12:2212:2326:3629:429:1129:3229:4233:833:933:1035:1536:3738:838:3039:3840:540:640:1240:2840:29
- Leviticus 24
- 1:31:53:24:44:74:188:38:48:318:338:3510:712:614:1114:2314:3815:1415:2916:717:417:517:617:919:21
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2:22
- Esther 1
- 5:1
- Song of Solomon 1
- 7:13
- Ezekiel 23
- 8:38:78:88:148:1610:1911:133:3040:1140:1340:3840:4041:241:341:1141:1741:2042:242:442:1142:1246:347:1
- Hosea 1
- 2:15
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫תַח petach · entrance
opening, doorway, entrance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “entrance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'TRANCE, noun
[Latin intrans, intro.]
- The act of entering into a place; as the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment.
- The power of entering.
- The door, gate, passage or avenue, by which a place may be entered.“They said, show us the entrance into the city” Judges 1:24
- Commencement; initiation; beginning.
All definitions
- The act of taking possession, as of land; as the entrance of an heir or a disseizor into lands and tenements.
- The act of taking possession, as of an office.
- The act of entering a ship or goods at the custom-house.
- The beginning of any thing.
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.