פָּטַר
patar · slip away, open
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6362 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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patar (פָּטַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slip away, open”.
Break through, get loose, slip away from a place; also let out or set free; open (the womb).
How to say it
pa·tar
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
- To slip away, without anyone noticing.
- To leave someone free of other duties or let him go.
- To open the lips in mockery of someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Like releasing ×1
- dismissed ×1
- free from other service ×1
- he slipped away ×1
- they part ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 19:10
Saul sought to strike with the spear David and the wall, but he slipped away from before Saul, and he drove the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
- 1 Chronicles 9:33
And these were the singers, heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, in the chambers, free from other service, for day and night it was on them to be in the work.
- 2 Chronicles 23:8
The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; each took his men, those who were coming in on the Sabbath with those who were going out on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest had not dismissed the divisions.
- Psalms 22:7
All who see me mock me; they part their lips, they shake their head:
- Proverbs 17:14
Like releasing water is the beginning of strife; so before the dispute breaks out, leave it.