peti · simple, naive

What it means

peti (פְּתִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “simple, naive”.

A person without experience, easily persuaded, who still has to learn.

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. Someone inexperienced, easily persuaded.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• simple ×16
• simpleness ×2
• naive ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×15
• Ezekiel×1

• Psalms 19:7

  The instruction of YHWH is blameless, bringing back the soul; the testimony of YHWH is faithful, making wise the naive.

• Psalms 116:6

  YHWH keeps the simple; I was brought low, and he saved me.

• Psalms 119:130

  The opening of your words gives light, giving understanding to the simple.

• Proverbs 1:4

  to give to the simple shrewdness, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, simple ones, will you love simpleness, and scoffers delight in scoffing for themselves, and the senseless hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 1:32

  For the turning away of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of the senseless will destroy them.

• Proverbs 7:7

  and I saw among the simple, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

• Proverbs 8:5

  Understand, simple ones, shrewdness; and, senseless ones, understand with your heart.

• Proverbs 9:4

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” To him who lacks sense she says:

• Proverbs 9:6

  Leave simpleness, and live; and walk in the way of understanding.”

• Proverbs 9:16

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” And to him who lacks sense she says:

• Proverbs 14:15

  The simple believes every word, but the shrewd understands his steps.

• Proverbs 14:18

  The simple inherit folly, but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.

• Proverbs 19:25

  Strike a scoffer, and the simple will become shrewd; and reprove the discerning, and he will understand knowledge.

• Proverbs 21:11

  When the scoffer is fined, the simple becomes wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

• Proverbs 22:3

  The shrewd sees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are fined.

• Proverbs 27:12

  The shrewd sees evil and hides himself; the simple pass on and are fined.

• Ezekiel 45:20

  And so you shall do on the seventh of the month for anyone who errs and for the simple; and you shall make expiation for the house.

And 1 more times.