Lexical Summary pathal: to twist Original Word: פָתַלTransliteration: pathal Phonetic Spelling: (paw-thal') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to twist Meaning: to twine, to struggle, be, tortuous Strong's Concordance show self froward, show self unsavoury, wrestle A primitive root; to twine, i.e. (literally) to struggle or (figuratively) be (morally) tortuous -- (shew self) froward, shew self unsavoury, wrestle. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6617. pathal [מָּתַל] verb twist (Late Hebrew Pi`el and derivatives; Arabic ; Ethiopic ; Aramaic מְּתַל, chiefly derivatives, in figure senses; Syriac ); — Niph`al Perfect1singular עִם נִמְּתַּלְתִּי Genesis 30:8 I have wrestled (literally twisted myself) with; Participle נִפְתָּלִים עֲצַת Job 5:13 the plan of the tortuous; וְעִקֵּשׁ נִפְתָּל Proverbs 8:8 anything tortuous and twisted. Hithpa`el Imperfect2masculine singular תִּתְמַּתָּ֑ל עִקֵּשׁ עִםֿ Psalm 18:27 with the twisted thou dost deal tortuously = 2 Samuel 22:27 (so read for impossible תִּתַּמָּ֑ל). |