Strong's #6475: patsah (pronounced paw-tsaw')
a primitive root; to rend, i.e. open (especially the mouth):--deliver, gape, open, rid, utter.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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pâtsâh
1) to part, open, separate, set free
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to open (mouth), utter
1a2) to snatch away, set free
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 15 times:
Genesis 4:11: "from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's"
Numbers 16:30: "make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up,"
Deuteronomy 11:6: "of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households,"
Judges 11:35: "and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD,"
Judges 11:36: "And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD,"
Job 35:16: "Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge."
Psalms 22:13: " They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion."
Psalms 66:14: "Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble."
Psalms 144:7: "Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters,"
Psalms 144:10: "It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful"
Psalms 144:11: " Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth"
Isaiah 10:14: "none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped."
Lamentations 2:16: "All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth:"
Lamentations 3:46: "All our enemies have opened their mouths against"
Ezekiel 2:8: "thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that"