King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6617
Transliteration: pathal
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-thal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to twist
Meaning: to twine, to struggle, be, tortuous
Word 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).