פָּאָה
pâʼâh · H6284 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to destroy, to wipe out, to strike down
Exact meaning unsure; probably: causative action by which humans take the life of other humans in a violent way
ExamplesDeuteronomy 32:26 ‘I would have said, “I will wipe them out, I will remove the mention of their name from humanity,”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 2 words
- קָבַץ qâbats · H6908 · to come together, to gather, to assemble
- קָבַץ denotes gathering together or assembling, the opposite of scattering or dispersing into corners; it is the standard lexical antonym for dispersion terminology.
- אָסַף ʼâçaph · H622 · to gather, to be assembled, to assemble
- אָסַף means to gather or collect together, contrasting with the scattering action of פָּאָה; it is a common opposite to dispersion verbs in Hebrew.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Exist002002002006
- פָּאָה means to scatter into corners, a dispersing that brings an end to something's settled existence.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6284. paah [מּאה] verb perhaps (si vera lectio) cleave in pieces (Arabic (, ) cleave,…
[מּאה] verb perhaps (si vera lectio) cleave in pieces (Arabic (, ) cleave, split (head, bowl, etc.); Sabean פעי DHMZMG xxx (1876), 701 f.); —
Hiph`il Imperfect1singular suffix אַפְאֵיהֶם Deu 32:26 I [׳י] will cleave them in pieces (possibly point ׳אֶפ, i.e.
Qal; on other views see Dr; read perhaps ᵐ5 אֲפִיצֵם Gr).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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