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# פָּקַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6491

**open** — used 20 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

open [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6491/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּקַח: vb. open [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6491/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. open eyes and (once) ears (NH id., open (and remove) rubbish heap, sq. עַל look to, attend to; Arabic فَقَحَ blossom, ii. open eyes; J.Aram פְּקַח open eyes, etc.; Syriac ܦܩܰܚ blossom);— Pf. 3 ms. פ׳ Jb 27:19; 2 ms. פָּקַחְתָּ 14:3; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְקַח Gn 21:19 +; 1 s. אֶפְקַח Zc 12:4; Imv. ms. פְּקַח 2 K 6:17 +, so Dn 9:18 Qr (Kt פקחה); Inf. abs. פָּקוֹחַ Is 42:20; cstr. לִפְקֹחַ v 7; Pt. act. פֹּקֵחַ ψ 146:8; pass. fpl. פְּקֻחוֹת Je 32:19;— open eyes: one’s own 2 K 4:35; Jb 27:19; Pr 20:13; 2 K 19:16 = Is 37:17; Dn 9:18; + עַל Je 32:19; Zc 12:4 Jb 14:3. eyes of others Gn 21:19 2 K 6:17(×2), 20(×2) Is 42:7 ψ 146:8;—for details v. עַיִן 1 j. open ears = hear Is 42:20 (without understanding; fig. of Isr.). Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְנִפְקְחוּ Gn 3:5; Impf. 3 fpl. תִּפָּקַחְנָה Is 35:5, וַתּ׳ Gn 3:7;—be opened, of eyes; fig., so as to know good and evil Gn 3:5, 7; opp. blindness (fig.) Is 35:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: open (7); he opened (4); they will be opened (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 35:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.5/#tree)

אָ֥ז תִּפָּקַ֖חְנָה עֵינֵ֣י עִוְרִ֑ים וְאָזְנֵ֥י חֵרְשִׁ֖ים תִּפָּתַֽחְנָה׃

*Word for word:* then they.will.be.opened \[the\].eyes of.blind.\[people\] and.\[the\] ears of.deaf.\[people\] they.will.be.unstopped

*JPS 1917:* Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

[Psalms 146:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.8/#tree)

יְהוָ֤ה ׀ פֹּ֘קֵ֤חַ עִוְרִ֗ים יְ֭הוָה זֹקֵ֣ף כְּפוּפִ֑ים יְ֝הוָ֗ה אֹהֵ֥ב צַדִּיקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh \[is\].opening blind.\[people\] Yahweh \[is\].raising.up \[those.who.are\].bowed.down Yahweh \[is\].loving righteous.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind; the LORD raiseth up them that are bowed down; the LORD loveth the righteous;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6491.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6491/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).