Cord
פָּתִילStrong’s H6616patil (pa-til)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Patil is the Hebrew word usually translated “cord of”, “cord your” and “cord”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.”
Meaning
- Cord, thread (twisted)
How it's translated
- a cord of 3
- with a cord of 2
- and cord your 1
- and the cord 1
- threads 1
- a cord 1
- thread of 1
- and a cord of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 5
- Genesis 2
- Numbers 2
- Judges 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:25When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
- Exodus 28:28And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
- Exodus 28:37And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
- Exodus 39:3And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
- Exodus 39:21And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:31And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּתִיל patil · cord
cord, thread (twisted)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cord” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORD, noun
[Latin Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
- A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Joshua 2:15
- A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line.
- In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalms 129:4
All definitions and other forms of “cord”
CORD, verb transitive
- To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
- To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord
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.