פָּתַל
patal · wrestle; be crooked
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6617 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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patal (פָּתַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wrestle; be crooked”.
Wrestle, struggle; also be twisted, crooked.
How to say it
pa·tal
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
- Grapple with someone, body to body.
- To be crooked; to deal shrewdly with the crooked.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- twisted ×2
- you show yourself tortuous ×2
- I have wrestled ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 30:8
Rachel said, “With wrestlings of Elohim I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.
- 2 Samuel 22:27
with the clean you show yourself clean, and with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.
- Job 5:13
who catches the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the twisted is rushed headlong.
- Psalms 18:26
with the clean you show yourself clean, and with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.
- Proverbs 8:8
In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth; there is nothing in them twisted or crooked.