פָּטוּר
opened
‘opened’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘intrans. remove oneself’
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6358 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings 4 verses
- 1 Kings 6:18 וּ/פְטוּרֵ֖י conj + Qal ptcp.pass mp cs There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
- 1 Kings 6:29 וּ/פְטוּרֵ֖י conj + Qal ptcp.pass mp cs He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.
- 1 Kings 6:32 וּ/פְטוּרֵ֥י conj + Qal ptcp.pass mp cs So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:35 וּ/פְטֻרֵ֖י conj + Qal ptcp.pass mp cs He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew word פטור centers on the idea of “opened.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to 1 Kings (100%). First canonically at 1 Kings 6:18, it enters the text early. Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6358 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 4 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Dismissed 1×, They shoot out 1×
- American Standard Version: Dismissed 1×, They shoot out 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Opened ones of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6358 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6358 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6358 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. פ׳ 2 Ch 23:8; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְטַר 1 S 19:10; Pt. act. פּוֹטֵר Pr 17:14; pass. פְּטוּרִים 1 Ch 9:33 Qr (Kt פטירים); cstr. פְּטוּרֵי 1 K 6:18, 29, 32, פְּטֻרֵי v 35;— e.g. 2 Chronicles 23:8
- 1. intrans. remove oneself, specif. escape 1 S 19:10 (מִפְּנֵי, cf. Dr). e.g. 1 Samuel 19:10
- 2. trans. set free from duty 2 Ch 23:8 (acc. pers.), so pass. 1 Ch 9:33 Qr (Kt פטירים adj. or Aramaic pt., same meaning); פ׳ מַיִם Pr 17:14 set free, let out; pass. פְּטוּרֵי צִצִּים term. techn. of ornament in temple, dub., usually out-spread (garlands) of flowers 1 K 6:18, 29, 32, 35. e.g. 2 Chronicles 23:8
Hiphil
- Impf. 3 ms. יַפְטִירוּ בְשָׂפָה ψ 22:8 they separate with the lip, i.e. open mouth wide (insultingly).* e.g. Psalms 22:8
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. separate, remove, set free (NH depart, set free, Niph. also die; Ph. פטר CIS 102a, 2 depart (die?); Assyrian Paṭâru, split, break through, ipṭiru, ransom, TelAm. escape, set free (perhaps Canaanit.); Arabic فَطَرَ cleave, split, also create; Ethiopic ፈጠረ create, fabricate; Aramaic פְּטַר, ܦܛܰܪ withdraw, depart);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פטר (pâṭar) (H6362) — to separate.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פָּטוּר
- , v. פָּטַר
פְּטוֹר
- (פָּטַר) discharge, exemption, opp. חִיּוּב. Sabb. 2ᵇ, v. חִיּוּב. Y. Peah II, beg. 16ᵈ ומה דמר … בפ׳ פיאה and what R. Johanan said was meant in reference to being exempt from Peah. Y. Ḥall. III, 59ᵃ, v. חִיּוּב. Cant. R. to IV, 4 בין פ׳ לחיוב between exemption and conviction; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6358 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/פְטוּרֵ֖י | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Kings 6:18 | 2 |
| וּ/פְטֻרֵ֖י | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Kings 6:35 | 1 |
| וּ/פְטוּרֵ֥י | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Kings 6:32 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6358, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
