פתי, פָּתָה (b. h.; cmp. פתח) 1) [to be open, wide,] to be accessible to influences, be compliant. Ex. R. s. 21 (ref. to Hos. VII, 11) אצלי הם כיונה פוֹתָה וכ׳ towards me they are like a tame dove, whatever I decree over them, they do and obey, but towards the nations of the world they are intractable like wild beasts. —2) to open; trnsf. to influence, persuade, entice. Snh. 38ᵃ (play on מי פתי Prov. IX, 16) מי פְּתָאוֹ לזה וכ׳ who persuaded this man (Adam)? A woman spoke to him; (differ. in Yalk. Prov. 943).—[Num. R. s. 7 ופותין, read: ופוֹתְתִין, v. פָּתַת.]
Pi. - פִּיתָּה [to open the heart of,] to persuade; 1) (in a good sense) to win, conquer. Lev. R. s. 29 (ref. to Ps. LXXXIX, 16) שהם מכירין לפַתּוֹת וכ׳ they know how to win the favor of their Creator &c.; (Midr. Till. to Ps. 81 לרצות); Yalk. Ps. 840; Pesik. Baḥod., p. 152ᵃ. Y. Kidd. III, 64ᶜ top מְפַתִּים אותו … וכופין וכ׳ they (the court) persuade him to give her a letter of divorce, but they force him to &c.; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 71 פיתיתי, v. infra. —2) to gratify; to mislead by gratifying; to deceive. Lev. R. s. 6, beg. (ref. to יהפתית, Prov. XXIV, 28) מאחר שפִּתִּיתֶם אותו בסיני וכ׳ after you gratified him at Sinai, saying (Ex. XXIV, 7) &c. Ib. מאחר שפִּתִּיתָ בשפתיך וכ׳ after thou hast gratified with thy lips (promised to appear as witness) and caused him to go to law; a. e.—Deut. R. s. 7 (play on ובמ̇ופ̇ת̇ים, Deut. IV, 34) היו המכות מְ֗פַ֗תּ֗וֹת אותם וכ׳ the plagues (by coming at intervals) deceived them (made the Egyptians believe every time that they were relieved forever); Midr. Till, to Ps. LXXVIII, 43 מפיתית בהן ed. Bub. (oth. ed. שפותות בהן; corr. acc.). —3) to entice. Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ the strong Moabite wine שהוא מְפַתֶּה הגנף לזנות which opens the body to lust; Num. R. s. 10, a. e., v. פְּתוּגְתָּא; a. fr.—Esp. to seduce. Keth. III, 9 (41ᵃ) האומר פִּיתֵּיתִי את וכ׳ if one declares, I have seduced that man’s daughter. Ib. 4 המְפַתֶּה נותן the seducer pays three fines, opp. to אונס; a. fr.—Y. Keth. III, 27ᵇ שהפיתתו, read: שהיא פִיתְּתוֹ when she seduced him.