pa.tir denotes those set apart from ordinary obligations for continual service, as with the Levite singers.

The single attestation presents the plural noun in connection with Levite singers whose work occupied them day and night, indicating persons set apart from ordinary duties for that continuing service.

1. Set apart for continual service · dominant

   In 1 Chronicles 9:33, the plural noun occurs of the singers among the Levites; the APB renders them as “set apart” because “day and night the work was upon them.”

   1 Chronicles 9:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Chronicles 9:33, the APB presents the clause as the singers being “set apart” because their work was day and night.