פְּתָי
breadth
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6613 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Ezra 1 verse
Daniel 1 verse
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.
פתי (pᵉthay) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “breadth.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Ezra, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It first appears in Ezra 6:3. It clusters with פתה, פתי and יפת under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6613 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 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: Breadth 2×
- American Standard Version: Breadth 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wide 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Width 1×, Width will be 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6613 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6613 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6613 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- width, breadth
Word origin
Derived from פתה (pâthâh) (H6601) — to deceive.
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.
*פָּתוּי
- (פָּתָה) extended; פְּתוּי הראש a flat-headed person; [Rashi: elf-locked]. Ber. 58ᵇ Ms. M. (ed. פְּתוּיֵי pl.; Alf. פתי).
פתי
- 1. [to be open, wide,] to be accessible to influences, be compliant. Ex. R. s. 21 (ref. to Hos. VII, 11) אצלי הם כיונה פוֹתָה וכ׳ towards me they are like a tame dove, whatever I decree over them, they do and obey, but towards the nations of the world they are intractable like wild beasts. e.g. Hosea 7:11
- 2. to open; trnsf. to influence, persuade, entice. Snh. 38ᵃ (play on מי פתי Prov. IX, 16) מי פְּתָאוֹ לזה וכ׳ who persuaded this man (Adam)? A woman spoke to him; (differ. in Yalk. Prov. 943).—[Num. R. s. 7 ופותין, read: ופוֹתְתִין, v. פָּתַת.] e.g. Proverbs 9:16
- [to open the heart of,] to persuade;
- 1. (in a good sense) to win, conquer. Lev. R. s. 29 (ref. to Ps. LXXXIX, 16) שהם מכירין לפַתּוֹת וכ׳ they know how to win the favor of their Creator &c.; (Midr. Till. to Ps. 81 לרצות); Yalk. Ps. 840; Pesik. Baḥod., p. 152ᵃ. Y. Kidd. III, 64ᶜ top מְפַתִּים אותו … וכופין וכ׳ they (the court) persuade him to give her a letter of divorce, but they force him to &c.; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 71 פיתיתי, v. infra. e.g. Psalms 89:16
- 2. to gratify; to mislead by gratifying; to deceive. Lev. R. s. 6, beg. (ref. to יהפתית, Prov. XXIV, 28) מאחר שפִּתִּיתֶם אותו בסיני וכ׳ after you gratified him at Sinai, saying (Ex. XXIV, 7) &c. Ib. מאחר שפִּתִּיתָ בשפתיך וכ׳ after thou hast gratified with thy lips (promised to appear as witness) and caused him to go to law; a. e.—Deut. R. s. 7 (play on ובמ̇ופ̇ת̇ים, Deut. IV, 34) היו המכות מְ֗פַ֗תּ֗וֹת אותם וכ׳ the plagues (by coming at intervals) deceived them (made the Egyptians believe every time that they were relieved forever); Midr. Till, to Ps. LXXVIII, 43 מפיתית בהן ed. Bub. (oth. ed. שפותות בהן; corr. acc.). e.g. Proverbs 24:28
- 3. to entice. Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ the strong Moabite wine שהוא מְפַתֶּה הגנף לזנות which opens the body to lust; Num. R. s. 10, a. e., v. פְּתוּגְתָּא; a. fr.—Esp. to seduce. Keth. III, 9 (41ᵃ) האומר פִּיתֵּיתִי את וכ׳ if one declares, I have seduced that man’s daughter. Ib. 4 המְפַתֶּה נותן the seducer pays three fines, opp. to אונס; a. fr.—Y. Keth. III, 27ᵇ שהפיתתו, read: שהיא פִיתְּתוֹ when she seduced him.
- to be persuaded; to be seduced. Gen. R. s. 71; Yalk. ib. 127 פּוּתֵּיתִי (not פית׳), v. יָסַת.—Part. f. מְפוּתָּה a seduced woman. Keth. 39ᵇ; a. fr.
- 1. to be widened. Yalk. Is. 302 אף היא מִתְפַּתָּה … ומרחבת וכ׳ it (Gehenna), too, grows every day wider and broader and deeper (with ref. to תפתה, Is. XXX, 33). e.g. Isaiah 30:33
- 2. to be persuaded; to be enticed. Gen. R. s. 17 מפני מה האיש נוח להִתְפַּתּוֹת וכ׳ why is man easily appeased and woman is not?; v. פִּיּוּס.—Num. R. l. c. ע"י היין נִתְפַּתּוּ וזנו through wine they were enticed and they committed whoredom. Erub. 19ᵃ (play on תפתה, v. supra) כל המִתְפַּתֶּה ביצרו יפול שם whosoever is carried away by his evil desire falls into it (Gehenna). Yalk. Is. l. c.—Keth. IV, 1 נערה שנִתְפַּתְּתָה וכ׳ if a young girl has been seduced (v. נַעֲרָה); a. fr.
- 3. to insinuate one’s self, to make one’s self popular. Esth. R. introd. (play on אפ̇ת̇ם, Ezra IV, 13) אפי׳ דברים שהמלכות מִתְפַּתָּה בהם וכ׳ even with those things by which the (Roman) government makes itself popular, as theatres and circuses, it does harm. e.g. Ezra 4:13
פְּתֵי I
- , to be wide, open. Targ. Is. LX, 5 (h. text רחב).—Part. (פָּאתֵי) פָּתֵי; f. פַּתְיָא; pl. פַּתְיָן, פַּתְיָין. Targ. Ps. CIV, 25 פְּתֵי constr. (some ed. פָּא׳; ed. Lag. פתאי, corr. acc.). Targ. Y. Gen. XXXIV, 21 פַּתְיית constr. Targ. Jer. LI, 58. Targ. Ps. CXIX, 96. Ib. XXV, 17; a. e.
- to widen. Targ. O. Gen. IX, 27 יַפְתֵּי (some ed. יַפְתְּ). Targ. Ex. XXXIV, 24. Targ. Deut. XII, 20; a. fr.
- to persuade, seduce. Targ. Prov. VII, 21 תְּפַתֵּיה (some ed. תְּפאתְיֵה).
פְּתֵי II
- constr. (preced.) widening,
- 1. פ׳ ירכא (cmp. patella) knee-pan. Targ. Gen. XXXII, 26 (Y. II כף); ib. 33.
- 2. width, distance. Ḥull. 139ᵇ שיתסר דרי בפ׳ מילא sixteen rows, each extending over one mile.
- 3. פ׳ רמשא, v. אַפְתָּא II
פֶּתִי
- one easily persuaded, credulous; inexperienced, simple; fool. Midr. Prov. to I, 4 אמר שלמה פ׳ הייתי וכ׳ Solomon says, I was simple, and the Lord has &c. Ex. R. s. 3 beg. (ref. to Prov. XIV, 15) מהו פ׳ נער שכן וכ׳ pethi means (here) a lad, for in Arabia they call a lad pathia (v. next w.); אין פ׳ אלא לשון פִּתּוּי pethi has the meaning of being enticed (with ref. to Ex. XXII, 15). Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. VII, 8 מכתש של פ׳ (ed. Zuck. פתין, read: פְּתָיִין pl.) the fool’s mortar (v. Prov. XXVII, 22,) an implement of torture (v. הֲמוֹר).—Pl. פְּתָאִים, פְּתָאִין, פְּתָיִין, v. supra. e.g. Proverbs 14:15
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Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6613, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
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