פָּתַח H6605

Home gloss

open

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

open

Note

The lattices (7:11), the window (8:6); root of פֶּתַח "doorway." Shares "open" with פָּקַח (H6491), which takes only eyes and ears: split by object (105b)

Rulings

2, 105

Declared to share English with

H6491 — split by object (105b): פָּקַח of eyes and ears, פָּתַח of everything else

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 7

7:11 In the year of six hundred years of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of vast Abyss were split, and the lattices of the skies were opened.

Genesis 8

8:6 And it was, at the end of forty days, and Noah opened the window of the box that he had made.