Pātâ occurs in selected passages about enticement, persuasion and deceptive speech. Deuteronomy 11:16 warns against being enticed to turn aside toward other gods, while Proverbs 1:10 tells the listener not to yield to sinners inviting participation in violence and plunder.
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Pātâ occurs in selected passages about enticement, persuasion and deceptive speech. Deuteronomy 11:16 warns against being enticed to turn aside toward other gods, while Proverbs 1:10 tells the listener not to yield to sinners inviting participation in violence and plunder.
The BSB source-word alignment has 28 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Entice (2), enticed (2), will entice (2), will entice him (2), and do not deceive (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 9:27. Its strongest book concentrations include Proverbs (5), 1 Kings (3), 2 Chronicles (3), Jeremiah (3).
Pātâ occurs in selected passages about enticement, persuasion and deceptive speech. Deuteronomy 11:16 warns against being enticed to turn aside toward other gods, while Proverbs 1:10 tells the listener not to yield to sinners inviting participation in violence and plunder. The danger is identified through the destination and proposed action, not through the assumption that every effort to persuade another person is necessarily sinful.
Proverbs 25:15 describes a ruler being persuaded through patience and a gentle tongue. Psalm 78:36 instead exposes mouths that flatter or deceive God while hearts remain disloyal in the following verse. Teaching should distinguish patient persuasion from an invitation to wrong and from speech inconsistent with fidelity. Licensed entries also separately document spacious and simple uses under this identifier, so no reader should be told that all its occurrences mean manipulation. A speaker's persuasiveness does not establish truth, and a gentle manner does not remove responsibility to examine what is actually being requested.
Enticement toward other gods, an invitation to violent plunder, patient persuasion of a ruler and deceptive covenant speech name differing purposes. The passages require attention to requested action and truthfulness instead of a universal condemnation or endorsement of persuasion.
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
The warning concerns being enticed to turn aside and worship other gods. The specific destination belongs with the word rather than a generic ban on listening to others.
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
The invitation is explained by the following proposal to ambush innocent people and share plunder. Refusing that concrete wrongdoing is the instruction, not refusing every form of advice.
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
Patient and gentle speech is presented as able to persuade a ruler. The bone-breaking expression concerns speech's effect rather than an instruction to use physical force.
But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
Deceptive mouths and lying tongues are exposed beside disloyal hearts. The account does not imply that God is successfully misled by the speakers' flattering words.
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Hebrew word. Opens the mind toward vulnerability: either innocent simplicity or malicious deception through persuasion.
Opens the mind toward vulnerability: either innocent simplicity or malicious deception through persuasion.
to open, i.e. be (causatively, make) roomy; usually figuratively (in a mental or moral sense) to be (causatively, make) simple or (in a sinister way) delude BDB: be spacious Usage: allure, deceive, enlarge, entice, flatter, persuade, silly (one).
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Showing 1 selected witness from 28 lexical occurrence verses.
פָּתָה is a primitive root - no further derivation.
Signals gracious initiative of God toward unfaithful people.Hosea 2:14-23
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Proverbs 1 supplies the content of the invitation: ambush, bloodshed and shared plunder. The listener is not asked to distrust every voice simply because persuasion occurs; the requested action gives the warning its force. Proverbs 25 then shows a different possibility, where patience and gentle speech can move a ruler. These witnesses resist both uncritical trust in an attractive presentation and a blanket suspicion of every effort to influence.
Psalm 78 exposes words that do not match covenant loyalty, yet the Lord's compassion remains visible in the same account. Deuteronomy warns about a religious destination that departs from the command to serve the Lord. First John 4:1-6 offers a Christian comparison that requires testing claimed spiritual voices instead of believing every one. The Hebrew identity includes separately documented spacious and simple entries, so etymological imagery cannot replace these contextual assessments. Teaching can ask what is requested and whether the speech is truthful without promising that a particular tone reliably reveals another person's hidden motives.
Prov.1.10
Licensed entries distinguish spacious and simple observations under the same identifier. Selected persuasive or enticing uses require their construction, proposed action and narrative evaluation; a shared lookup number does not merge every occurrence into deceptive manipulation or approve a new canonical sense model.
First John 4:1-6 tells its readers to test claimed spiritual voices rather than believe each one indiscriminately. It supplies a Christian comparison for examining a message's content alongside these enticement passages. It does not make pātâ a Greek deception term or allow a modern speaker to demand trust merely by using religious vocabulary.