Opening
פֵּ֫תַחStrong’s H6608petach (pe-tach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Petach is the Hebrew word usually translated “opening of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.”
Meaning
- Opening, unfolding, entrance, doorway
How it's translated
- opening of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פֵּ֫תַח petach · opening
opening, unfolding, entrance, doorway
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “opening” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OPENING, participle present
tense o'pning. Unclosing; unsealing; uncovering; revealing; interpreting.
All definitions and other forms of “opening”
OPENING, noun
o'pning.
- A breach; an aperture; a hole or perforation.
- A place admitting entrance; as a bay or creek.
- Dawn; first appearance or visibleness; beginning of exhibition or discovery.
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.