pa.tah describes bringing a person or heart under persuasive influence, often to prompt an action or disclosure.

The occurrences show persuasive influence directed toward a response: sinners seek to draw someone into consent, Samson's wife is urged to obtain a disclosure, and a spirit is commissioned to move Ahab toward a fatal campaign. The same broad use can describe a heart being drawn aside, a prophet being influenced to speak, or a ruler being persuaded.

1. Inducing someone toward a response or course · dominant

   The Piel imperatives in Judges 14:15 and Judges 16:5 command Samson's wife to influence him into revealing information; in 2 Samuel 3:25, the Piel infinitive describes an attempt to learn another person's movements and actions. In 1 Kings 22:20 the Piel imperfect asks who will move Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead, while Proverbs 1:10 presents sinners seeking the listener's consent.

   Judges 14:15Judges 16:52 Samuel 3:251 Kings 22:20Proverbs 1:10Proverbs 25:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the action with "entice," including the Ahab scene and the commands addressed to Samson's wife. Elsewhere it uses "deceived," "persuaded," and "flattered" in whole-verse renderings; Those variations should not be treated as separate lexical definitions.