פָּתִיל
pa.til
cord
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "pa.til" (H6616, פָּתִיל) appears 11 times in the Bible, and its primary meaning is a "cord." This term likely refers to a length of string or rope, possibly made of woven or braided fibers. Given its definition as a cord, "pa.til" is associated with objects or actions bound or tied together. In the Bible, "pa.til" is used in a variety of contexts. It might be employed to describe something tied around someone's wrist (potentially as a binding or ornament), or it could represent a length of cord used for various tasks such as tying or securing something. Although the full range of meaning is not explicitly stated, it's clear that "pa.til" plays a functional role in everyday activities and material culture. The significance of "pa.til" lies in its portrayal of the material and practical aspects of ancient life. As a cord, it represents the way people interacted with and manipulated their surroundings through ties, bindings, and knots. This Hebrew term offers a glimpse into the mundane, yet essential, tasks and objects of daily life in the ancient world.
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Occurrences in Scripture
11 total occurrences across the text
He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
Genesis 38:18He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis 38:25When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
Exodus 28:28They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.
Exodus 28:37You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.
Exodus 39:3They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
Exodus 39:21They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:31They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Numbers 15:38“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.
Numbers 19:15Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
Judges 16:9Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.