פָּתַח pâthach

Meaning

to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

In the King James Version: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-) grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 39:5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
• Job 41:14 Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
• Psalms 5:9 For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
• Psalms 30:11 You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
• Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
• Psalms 38:13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
• Psalms 39:9 I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
• Psalms 49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
• Psalms 51:15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
• Psalms 78:2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
• Psalms 78:23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
• Psalms 102:20 to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
• Psalms 104:28 When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
• Psalms 105:20 The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.
• Psalms 105:41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
• Psalms 106:17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
• Psalms 109:2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
• Psalms 116:16 Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.
• Psalms 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.
• Psalms 145:16 You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
• Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
• Proverbs 31:8 Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
• Proverbs 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
• Proverbs 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
• Song of Solomon 5:2 I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Song of Solomon 5:5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
• Song of Solomon 5:6 I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
• Song of Solomon 7:12 Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom—there I will give you my love.
• Isaiah 5:27 None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
• Isaiah 14:17 who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
• Isaiah 20:2 the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
• Isaiah 22:22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
• Isaiah 24:18 Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
• Isaiah 26:2 Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.
• Isaiah 28:24 Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
• Isaiah 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
• Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
• Isaiah 45:1 This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
• Isaiah 45:8 Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
• Isaiah 48:8 You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
• Isaiah 50:5 The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
• Isaiah 51:14 The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
• Isaiah 52:2 Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
• Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
• Isaiah 58:6 Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
• Isaiah 60:11 Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.
• Jeremiah 1:14 Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
• Jeremiah 5:16 Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
• Jeremiah 13:19 The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.
• Jeremiah 40:4 But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
• Jeremiah 50:25 The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
• Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.
• Ezekiel 1:1 In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
• Ezekiel 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.
• Ezekiel 3:27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
• Ezekiel 21:22 In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
• Ezekiel 21:28 Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
• Ezekiel 24:27 On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
• Ezekiel 25:9 therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.
• Ezekiel 33:22 Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.