פָּצָה pâtsâh — to rend, i.e. open (especially the mouth)
Translated in the KJV as deliver, gape, open, rid, utter.
a primitive root; to rend, i.e. open (especially the mouth).
pâtsâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 8Imperative 3Participle (active) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
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 ›