H6359 H6359
Set free, exempt from duties; those released from regular obligations (Ketiv variant)
This form appears in 1 Chronicles 9:33 in a Ketiv reading, describing Levitical singers who were exempt from other temple duties. The root meaning involves separation or removal—setting someone free from obligations. The singers were 'set apart' in a double sense: consecrated for their musical ministry, yet released from the routine work that occupied other Levites. The Spanish 'libres' (free) captures this sense of exemption well.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Describes Levitical temple musicians who were released from other duties, found in 1 Chronicles 9:33 (Ketiv reading). These individuals were functionally 'free' or exempt because their musical ministry required full-time dedication. The term comes from a root meaning to separate or set free, and here indicates a special class status—freed from normal Levitical obligations to focus on sacred song day and night. 1×
AR["[مُعْفَوْنَ]"]·ben["[মুক্তরা]"]·DE["[פטירים]"]·EN["[ketiv]"]·FR["[פטירים]"]·heb["[פטירים]"]·HI["[निवृत्ति]"]·ID["[ketiv]"]·IT["[פטירים]"]·jav["[kabebasaken]"]·KO["[면제된]"]·PT["[isentos]"]·RU["[освобождённые]"]·ES["[libres]"]·SW["[wameachiliwa]"]·TR["[serbest]"]·urd["[آزاد]"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† פָּטַר vb. separate, remove, set free (NH depart, set free, Niph. also die; Ph. פטר CIS 102a, 2 depart (die?); Assyrian Paṭâru, split, break through, ipṭiru, ransom, TelAm. escape, set free (perhaps Canaanit.); Arabic فَطَرَ cleave, split, also create; Ethiopic ፈጠረ create, fabricate; Aramaic פְּטַר, ܦܛܰܪ withdraw, depart);— Qal Pf. 3 ms. פ׳ 2 Ch 23:8; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְטַר 1 S 19:10; Pt. act.…