- Original: פּתל
- Transliteration: Pathal
- Phonetic: paw-thal'
- Definition:
1. to twist
a. (Niphal)
1. to be twisted
2. to wrestle
b. (Hithpael) to be twisted
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1857
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to twine that is (literally) to struggle or (figuratively) be (morally) tortuous: - (shew self) froward shew self unsavoury wrestle.
Total KJV Occurrences: 5
• froward, 3
Job 5:13;
Psalm 18:26;
Proverbs 8:8
• unsavory, 1
2 Samuel 22:27
• wrestled, 1
Genesis 30:8