patar · interpret

What it means

patar (פָּתַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “interpret”.

Explain the meaning of a dream.

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 explain a dream.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• he interpreted ×3
• had interpreted ×2
• interpreter ×1
• who can interpret ×1
• who could interpret ×1
• you can interpret ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis 40:8

  They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it.” Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to Elohim? Please tell them to me.”

• Genesis 40:16

  When the chief of the bakers saw that he had interpreted well, he said to Joseph, “In my dream I too saw, and look, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

• Genesis 40:22

  but the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

• Genesis 41:8

  In the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:12

  A young man was there with us, a Hebrew, a slave of the chief of the guard. We told him, and he interpreted for us our dreams; to each according to his dream he interpreted.

• Genesis 41:13

  And just as he interpreted for us, so it happened: me he restored to my position, and him he hanged.”

• Genesis 41:15

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; but I have heard it said about you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

And 2 more times.