פֵּאָה
pêʼâh · H6285 · Hebrew · 86 occurrences
Meanings
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side, edge, corner, leg
One of the sides or corners of an object
ExamplesExodus 25:26 “You shall also make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four legs.
Exodus 26:18 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side.
Exodus 26:20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
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frontier land
Literally the side of land, and hence an area of land on the boundary of one's territory that functions as a buffer between it and neighboring countries
ExamplesNehemiah 9:22 “You also gave them kingdoms and peoples, And allotted them to them as a boundary. They took possession of the land of Sihon the king of Heshbon And the land of Og the king of Bashan.
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temple
Literally the side of the head, and hence the side of the head between forehead and ear, the hair of which was not to be shaved as was the practice of certain ethnic groups
ExamplesNumbers 24:17 I see him, but not now; I look at him, but not near; A star shall appear from Jacob, A scepter shall rise from Israel, And shall smash the forehead of Moab, And overcome all the sons of Sheth.
Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all those inhabiting the desert who trim the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”
Jeremiah 25:23 and to Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who trim the corners of their hair;
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beauty, quality, luxury
High quality of beauty
ExamplesAmos 3:12 This is what the LORD says: “Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear, So will the sons of Israel living in Samaria be snatched away— With the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
79 occurrences in 13 groups
- יָםsea 24
- קָדִיםeast, east wind 18
- נֶגֶבsouth, the Negeb 11
- צָפוֹןnorth 11
- קֶדֶםeast, ancient time 5
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- אַרְבַּעfour 2
- רֶגֶלfoot, leg 2
- אֶחָדone 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
What is done to itIt is the object
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- כָּלָהto be finished 2
- גָּלַחto shave (oneself) 1
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
- מָחַץto strike 1
- נָקַףto strip off 1
- שָׁחַתto destroy, to corrupt 1
What it is said to bePredicate
9 occurrences in 9 groups
- אַרְבַּעfour 5
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֹאתthis 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
55 occurrences in 6 groups
- לto/for 23
- מִןfrom 19
- עַדto, as far as, until 13
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
- אֵלto, toward 2
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָצַץto cut off 3
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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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Objects001
- פֵּאָה denotes a corner, end, or side of a physical object, as of the four corners of the ark's rings in Exodus 25:26 and the sides of the tabernacle's boards and courtyard hangings in Exodus 26:18, 26:20, 27:9, and 27:11.
- People001001003
- The word is also used of the corner or edge of a person's head or beard, a facet not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which describe the sides of the tabernacle's structure.
- Good002001001031
- This domain's connection to פֵּאָה is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's ordinary architectural sense of a corner or side.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6285. peah מֵּאָה86 noun feminine corner, side (part cut off, 'Abschnitt,' according to…
מֵּאָה86 noun feminine corner, side (part cut off, 'Abschnitt,' according to Schröter in MeiArchiv. i. 461 BaZMG xii (1887), 615 BuhlLex, but perhaps biliteral, NöM. 485 Sta§ 185, and not from √ פאה; compare Arabic company, etc. (Nöl. e.); Assyrian pâtu, side, edge, border, see especially MeissnSuppl. 74; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic מָּאתָא, ); — absolute ׳פ Jer 9:25 Jer 9:4t.; construct מְּאַת Amo 3:12 77t.; plural absolute מֵּאֹת Exo 25:26; Exo 37:23; dual construct מַּאֲַתֵי Num 24:17 (but read probably מְּאַת as || Jer 48:45); —
1 corner of divan Amo 3:12; table Exo 25:26; Exo 37:23; field Lev 19:9; Lev 23:22 (H); land (probably) לְפֵאָה וַתַּחְלְקֵם Neh 9:22, i.e. into every corner; ׳פ ראֹשְׁכֶם Lev 19:27 (i.e. your temples), ׳פ זְקָנֶ֑ךָ Lev 19:27; compare Lev 21:5 (all H); קְצוּצֵי פֵאָה those clipped on the temples Jer 9:25; Jer 25:23; Jer 49:32 (epithet of Arabian tribes, Herod.iii, 8 WMMAs.u.Eur.140 f. WeSkizzen iii. 119; Heid. 2, 198); temples of Moab (under figure of man) Num 24:17 (JE) Jer 48:45.
2 side:
a. usually of Ezekiel's temple, the tabernacle, the holy city and the land, or its subdivisions (only Ezekiel 41-48 [47 t.] and P [26 t.]): in plur. קָדִ֫ימ(הׅ מְּאַת East side Eze 47:18 Eze 47:17t. Ezekiel, = פ ׳קֵדְמָה Exo 27:13 Exo 27:3t. P and Eze 45:7 (see Co Toy); פ ׳צָפ֫וֺנ(ה) North side Eze 47:15; Exo 26:20 Exo 26:9t.; פ נ֫גְבָּה) ׳ֶ נֶגֶב South side Eze 47:19 (twice in verse); Exo 27:9 Exo 27:8t.; פ ׳(יָ֫מָּה) יָם West side Eze 45:7; Exo 27:12 Exo 27:21t. + פ ׳הַיָּם דֶּרֶךְֿ Eze 41:12 (also ׳פ הַיָּם קָדִים Eze 48:1); absolute only הָאֶחָת לַמֵּאָה Exo 27:9.
b. מָּנָיו מְּאַת Lev 13:41 side (border) of his face (forehead and temples; P).
פאם see פימה
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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