Strong's #6362: patar (pronounced paw-tar')

a primitive root; to cleave or burst through, i.e. (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape):--dismiss, free, let (shoot) out, slip away.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pâṭar

1) to separate, set free, remove, open, escape, burst through

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to remove (oneself), escape

1a2) to set free, let out

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

1 Samuel 19:10: "David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote"
1 Chronicles 9:33: "of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day"
2 Chronicles 23:8: "for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses."
Psalms 22:7: "All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,"
Proverbs 17:14: "The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with."