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# פָּתַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6617

**twist** — used 5 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

twist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6617/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּתַל: vb. twist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6617/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. twist (NH Pi. and deriv.; Arabic فَتَلَ; Ethiopic ፈተለ:; Aramaic פְּתַל, chiefly deriv., in fig. senses; Syriac ܦܬܰܠ );— Pf. 1 s. נִפְתַּלְתִּי עִם Gn 30:8 I have wrestled (lit. twisted myself) with; Pt. עֲצַת נִפְתָּלִים Jb 5:13 the plan of the tortuous; נִפְתָּל וְעִקֵּשׁ Pr 8:8 anything tortuous and twisted. Impf. 2 ms. עִם־עִקֵּשׁ תִּתְפַּתָּ֑ל ψ 18:27 with the twisted thou dost deal tortuously = 2 S 22:27 (so read for imposs. תִּתַּפָּ֑ל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have wrestled (1); a tortuous \[thing\] (1); of tortuous \[ones\] (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.27/#tree)

עִם־נָבָ֖ר תִּתָּבָ֑ר וְעִם־עִקֵּ֖שׁ תִּתַּפָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* with \[one.who\].purifies.himself you.show.yourself.pure and with a.perverse.\[person\] you.show.yourself.twisted

*JPS 1917:* With the pure Thou dost show myself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.

[Psalms 18:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.27/#tree)

עִם־נָבָ֥ר תִּתְבָּרָ֑ר וְעִם־עִ֝קֵּ֗שׁ תִּתְפַּתָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* with \[one.who\].purifies.himself you.show.yourself.pure and with a.perverse.\[person\] you.show.yourself.tortuous

*JPS 1917:* With the pure Thou dost show Thyself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6617.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6617/): 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).