פֶּתַח petach

Hebrew word for “entrance” · Strong’s H6607 · used 164 times in 154 verses

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Meaning

opening, doorway, entrance

How it is translated

Glosses given for petach in context, with how often each is used:

• entrance 130
• opening 11
• door 4
• doorways 4
• doorway 3
• doors 3
• entrances 3
• openings 2
• entrance towards 1
• gates 1
• like entrances 1
• like the entrances 1

Where it is used

Also in 12 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 40 (5), Leviticus 8 (5), Ezekiel 8 (5), Ezekiel 41 (5), Exodus 29 (4), Leviticus 17 (4), Numbers 16 (4), Judges 9 (4), Ezekiel 40 (4), Ezekiel 42 (4)

Forms

• פתח 109
• הפתח 11
• לפתח 9
• בפתח 6
• ופתח 5
• פתחי 5
• מפתח 3
• ומפתח 2
• הפתחה 1
• הפתחים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with petach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֹהֶל ohel “tent” 61
• מוֹעֵד moed “meeting” 47
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 32
• מָסָךְ masakh “covering” 10
• עָמַד amad “to stand” 17
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 15
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 20
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 17
• מִשְׁכָּן mishkan “tabernacle” 11
• עַד ad “till” 16
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 8
• מְזוּזָה mezuzah “doorpost” 6

Key verses

The verses using petach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 4:7 — 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…
• Genesis 18:2 — And 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…
• Leviticus 1:3 — If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the…
• Numbers 25:6 — And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the…
• Deuteronomy 22:21 — Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath…
• Psalms 24:7 — Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
• Jeremiah 19:2 — And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
• Ezekiel 8:3 — And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the…
• Ezekiel 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about…
• Ezekiel 11:1 — Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and…
• Hosea 2:15 — And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the…
• Micah 7:5 — Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.