פָּקַח pâqach — to open (the senses, especially the eyes)
Translated in the KJV as open.
a primitive root; to open (the senses, especially the eyes); figuratively, to be observant.
pâqach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 7Wayyiqtol 4Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1Infinitive absolute 1Participle (passive) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›