pakach · open (the eyes)

What it means

pakach (פָּקַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “open (the eyes)”.

Open (the eyes or the ears); from there, become aware.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To open the eyes; God who gives sight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• open ×11
• opened ×7
• he opens ×1
• opens the eyes of ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• 2 Kings×6
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 3:5

  for Elohim knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.”

• Genesis 3:7

  And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.

• Genesis 21:19

  Then Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy.

• 2 Kings 4:35

  He went back and walked in the house, once this way and once that way, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the boy sneezed up to seven times, and the boy opened his eyes.

• 2 Kings 6:17

  Elisha prayed and said, “YHWH, please open his eyes so that he may see.” YHWH opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and there was the mountain, full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

• 2 Kings 6:20

  And it happened, when they came into Samaria, that Elisha said, “YHWH, open the eyes of these men so that they may see.” YHWH opened their eyes, and they saw; and there they were, in the middle of Samaria.

• 2 Kings 19:16

  Incline, YHWH, your ear and hear; open, YHWH, your eyes and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to taunt the living Elohim.

• Job 14:3

  Even on such a one you open your eyes, and me you bring into judgment with you?

• Job 27:19

  He lies down rich, but will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is gone.

• Psalms 146:8

  YHWH opens the eyes of the blind; YHWH makes straight those who are bent down; YHWH loves the righteous;

• Proverbs 20:13

  Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, and be satisfied with bread.

• Isaiah 35:5

  Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

• Isaiah 37:17

  Incline, YHWH, your ear and hear; open, YHWH, your eyes and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to taunt the living Elohim.

• Isaiah 42:7

  to open blind eyes, to bring out from confinement the prisoner, from the prison house those who dwell in darkness.

• Isaiah 42:20

  You see many things, but do not keep them; the ears are open, but he does not hear.”

• Jeremiah 32:19

  great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open on all the ways of the children of humankind, to give to each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

• Daniel 9:18

  Incline, my Elohim, your ear and hear; open your eyes and see our desolations and the city over which your name is called; for not because of our righteous acts do we present our supplications before you, but because of your great compassion.

• Zechariah 12:4

  On that day, declares YHWH, I will strike every horse with bewilderment, and its rider with madness; but on the house of Judah I will open my eyes, and every horse of the peoples I will strike with blindness.

And 2 more times.