petach · entrance, door

What it means

petach (פֶּתַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “entrance, door”.

Way, door, opening.

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. Where one goes into a house, tent or city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

An opening: the entrance, the door of a house or of a tent. It comes from פָּתַח, “to open”.

• The entrance of the tent of meeting Leviticus 8:3
• Abraham at the entrance of his tent Genesis 18:1
• The door of the ark and that of the house Genesis 6:16Exodus 12:22
• “Sin is crouching at the door” Genesis 4:7
• “Be lifted up, eternal doorways” Psalms 24:7

Historical and cultural background

In the laws of Leviticus many offerings are presented “at the entrance of the tent of meeting” (Leviticus 8:3).

How we translate it

“Entrance” 133 times, “entrances” 6, “door” 11, “doors” 2, “doorway” 5, “doorways” 5.

How it is translated

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

• entrance ×133
• door ×11
• entrances ×6
• doorway ×5
• doorways ×5
• doors ×2
• gates ×1
• openings ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×10
• Exodus×22
• Leviticus×24
• Numbers×17
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×3
• Judges×9
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×9
• 2 Kings×5
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×6
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×30
• Hosea×1
• Micah×2

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, will there not be a lifting up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and toward you is its desire, but you will rule over it.”

• Genesis 6:16

  An opening you shall make for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from above; and the door of the ark you shall put in its side; with lower, second, and third decks you shall make it.

• Genesis 18:1

  YHWH appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day.

• Genesis 18:2

  He lifted his eyes and looked, and look, three men were standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed down to the ground.

• Genesis 18:10

  Then he said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and look, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, and it was behind him.

• Genesis 19:6

  Lot went out to them at the entrance, and shut the door behind him,

• Genesis 19:11

  And the men who were at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, from small to great, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the entrance.

• Genesis 38:14

  She removed her widow’s garments from her, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

• Genesis 43:19

  So they approached the man who was over the house of Joseph and spoke to him at the entrance of the house,

• Exodus 12:22

  Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the bowl, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood that is in the bowl. As for you, none shall go out of the door of his house until morning.

• Exodus 12:23

  For YHWH will pass through to strike Egypt; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, YHWH will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

• Exodus 26:36

  You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 29:4

  Aaron and his sons you shall bring near to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.

• Exodus 29:11

  You shall slaughter the bull before YHWH at the entrance of the tent of meeting,

• Exodus 29:32

  Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Exodus 29:42

  It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before YHWH, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

• Exodus 33:8

  And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each man at the entrance of his tent, and watch after Moses until he went into the tent.

• Exodus 33:9

  And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and he would speak with Moses.

• Exodus 33:10

  And all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, and all the people would rise and bow down, each man at the entrance of his tent.

• Exodus 35:15

  and the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance for the entrance of the dwelling;

• Exodus 36:37

  And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen, the work of an embroiderer,

• Exodus 38:8

  And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Exodus 38:30

  And with it he made the bases of the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the altar of bronze, and the grating of bronze that belonged to it, and all the utensils of the altar,

• Exodus 39:38

  and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance of the tent;

• Exodus 40:5

  And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and you shall put the screen of the entrance for the dwelling.

• Exodus 40:6

  And you shall put the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the dwelling, the tent of meeting.

• Exodus 40:12

  And you shall bring Aaron and his sons near to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.

• Exodus 40:28

  And he put the screen of the entrance for the dwelling.

• Exodus 40:29

  And the altar of burnt offering he put at the entrance of the dwelling, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 1:3

  If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall present a male without defect; at the entrance of the tent of meeting he shall present it, for his acceptance before YHWH.

• Leviticus 1:5

  He shall slaughter the young bull before YHWH, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall present the blood and splash the blood against the altar all around, the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 3:2

  He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall splash the blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 4:4

  He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before YHWH, lay his hand on the head of the bull, and slaughter the bull before YHWH.

• Leviticus 4:7

  The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before YHWH that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 4:18

  He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before YHWH that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 8:3

  and assemble all the community at the entrance of the tent of meeting.”

• Leviticus 8:4

  Moses did as YHWH had commanded him, and the community assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 8:31

  Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of ordination, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

• Leviticus 8:33

  You shall not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day the days of your ordination are completed, for for seven days you will be ordained.

• Leviticus 8:35

  At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of YHWH, so that you do not die; for so I have been commanded.”

And 124 more times.