פָּטַר pâṭar — to cleave or burst through, i.e. (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape)
Translated in the KJV as dismiss, free, let out, slip away.
a primitive root; to cleave or burst through, i.e. (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape).
pâṭar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Participle (passive) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
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 ›