Limitless Word
פָּתַחpâthach/paw-thakh'/
HebrewH6605144 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-) grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.

Where it appears(showing the first 133 of 144)

  • Gen 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.
  • Gen 8:6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
  • Gen 24:32The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
  • Gen 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 30:22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Gen 41:56The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 42:27As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
  • Gen 43:21When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
  • Gen 44:11Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
  • Exod 2:6She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
  • Exod 21:33“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
  • Exod 28:9You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:
  • Exod 28:11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
  • Exod 28:36“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’
  • Exod 39:6They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
  • Num 16:32The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
  • Num 19:15Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
  • Num 22:28Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
  • Num 26:10and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
  • Deut 15:8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
  • Deut 15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
  • Deut 20:11It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
  • Deut 28:12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
  • Josh 8:17There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
  • Josh 10:22Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”
  • Judg 3:25They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
  • Judg 4:19He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.
  • Judg 19:27Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
  • 1 Sam 3:15Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
  • 1 Kgs 7:36On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
  • 1 Kgs 8:52that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
  • 1 Kgs 20:11The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”
  • 2 Kgs 9:3Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”
  • 2 Kgs 9:10The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.
  • 2 Kgs 13:17He said, “Open the window eastward”; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he shot. He said, “Yahweh’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you will strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.”
  • 2 Kgs 15:16Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.
  • 2 Chr 2:7“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
  • 2 Chr 2:14the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
  • 2 Chr 3:7He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
  • 2 Chr 6:20that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.
  • 2 Chr 6:40“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
  • 2 Chr 7:15Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
  • 2 Chr 29:3In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.
  • Neh 1:6Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
  • Neh 6:5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
  • Neh 7:3I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
  • Neh 8:5Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
  • Neh 13:19It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
  • Job 3:1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
  • Job 11:5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
  • Job 12:14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
  • Job 12:18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
  • Job 29:19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
  • Job 30:11For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
  • Job 31:32(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
  • Job 32:19Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
  • Job 32:20I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
  • Job 33:2See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
  • Job 38:31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
  • Job 39:5“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
  • Job 41:14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
  • Ps 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
  • Ps 37:14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.
  • Ps 38:13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
  • Ps 39:9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
  • Ps 49:4I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
  • Ps 51:15Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
  • Ps 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
  • Ps 78:23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
  • Ps 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
  • Ps 104:28You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
  • Ps 105:20The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
  • Ps 105:41He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
  • Ps 106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
  • Ps 109:2for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
  • Ps 116:16Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.
  • Ps 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
  • Ps 145:16You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • Prov 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
  • Prov 31:8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
  • Prov 31:9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
  • Prov 31:26She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
  • Song 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
  • Song 5:5I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
  • Song 5:6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.
  • Song 7:12Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
  • Isa 5:27No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken:
  • Isa 14:17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
  • Isa 20:2at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
  • Isa 22:22I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
  • Isa 24:18It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
  • Isa 26:2Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.
  • Isa 28:24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
  • Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
  • Isa 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
  • Isa 45:1Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
  • Isa 45:8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
  • Isa 48:8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
  • Isa 50:5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
  • Isa 51:14The captive exile will speedily be freed; and he will not die and go down into the pit, and his bread will not fail.
  • Isa 52:2Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
  • Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
  • Isa 58:6“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
  • Isa 60:11Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
  • Jer 1:14Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.
  • Jer 5:16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
  • Jer 13:19The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.
  • Jer 40:4Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.”
  • Jer 50:25Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
  • Jer 50:26Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.
  • Ezek 1:1Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
  • Ezek 3:2So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
  • Ezek 3:27But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.”
  • Ezek 21:22In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
  • Ezek 21:28“You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: “A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
  • Ezek 24:27In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 25:9therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,
  • Ezek 33:22Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.
  • Ezek 37:12Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
  • Ezek 37:13You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
  • Ezek 44:2Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.
  • Ezek 46:1Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
  • Ezek 46:12When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.
  • Dan 10:16Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, my lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows are turned on me, and I retain no strength.
  • Amos 8:5Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
  • Nah 2:6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
  • Nah 3:13Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
  • Zech 3:9For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
  • Zech 11:1Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
  • Zech 13:1“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Mal 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.