Words the Bible translates as simple
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- patahפָּתָהto make wide or roomy: to enlarge a person's space and give them room to spread out
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- to sway an open or gullible mind: to entice, persuade, or seduce someone, or to be the naive, easily led person who is swayed
- petiפֶּתִיnaive openness itself, treated as a quality: the untaught, gullible state the simple person needs to leave behind.
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- a person whose mind and loyalties are still open and unformed: naive and easily led, yet teachable, the raw material wisdom hopes to shape.
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