פֹּה
pôh · H6311 · Hebrew · 82 occurrences
Meanings
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here
A reference to the location of the speaker
ExamplesGenesis 19:12 Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law and your sons and daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
Genesis 22:5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”
Genesis 40:15 “For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”
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on this side... on the other side, on either side
A reference to both sides of an object
ExamplesEzekiel 41:2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the sanctuary, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
Ezekiel 41:19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around.
Ezekiel 41:26 And there were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; the same were on the side chambers of the house and the thresholds.
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
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
17 occurrences in 8 groups
- אֶחָדone 4
- שָׁלוֹשׁthree 4
- שֻׁלְחָןtable 4
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 2
- חֲנִיתspear 1
- חֶרֶבsword 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until 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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In the other Testament 2 words
- ἐντεῦθεν enteûthen · G1782 · from here
- Greek ἐντεῦθεν renders Hebrew פֹּה as the standard locative equivalent for 'here/hence' and spatial deictic contexts, with both lexemes covering directional ('from here') and positional ('in this place') senses, making this a core translational correspondence across the language boundary.
- ὧδε hōde · G5602 · here, in this, in this case
- Greek ὧδε directly renders Hebrew פֹּה in its locative sense 'here/hither,' functioning as the standard LXX translation equivalent for this spatial deictic with identical core semantics.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spatial Referents003002005
- פֹּה is the locative adverb here or hither, marking this place as opposed to another.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root פֹּה
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6311. poh or po or po מֹּה58, and (Ezekiel 40-41, 23 out of 35 t.) מּוֺ, also Job 38:11b…
or po or po מֹּה58, and (Ezekiel 40-41, 23 out of 35 t.) מּוֺ, also Job 38:11b מֹּא,
adverb of location here, hither (probably from the same demonstrative √ found in so, then (often in apodosis), אֵפוֺא אַף,: compare Köii. l, 247 f., 243, 331 f.): —
1 here:
a. Gen 19:12 מֹּה מִילְֿךָ עֹד whom hast thou still here ? Gen 22:5 מֹּה לָכֶם שְׁבוּ, Gen 40:15; Num 22:8; Num 32:16; Deu 5:28; Deu 12:8; Jdg 4:20 אִישׁ מֹּה הֲיֵשׁ, 2Ki 3:11, etc.; asked in some surprise, Jdg 18:3 פֹה מַהלְּֿךָ = what is thy business here ? simil. 1Ki 19:9, 1Ki 19:13; Isa 22:16; Isa 52:5 מַהלִּֿיפֹֿה וְעַתָּה. compare the synonym כֹּה בָּזֶה,
2. b. עַדמֹּֿה Job 38:11 a.
c. מִמֹּה or מִמּוֺ, only Ezekiel 40-41, and always (except Eze 40:12 a, where it must be supplied with ᵑ6 ᵐ5) repeated, on this side ... on that side (compare מִזֶּה ֗֗֗ מִזֶּה), Eze 40:10 (twice in verse); Eze 40:12b; Eze 40:21 (twice in verse), etc.
d. with the interrogative אֵיפֹה אֵי, where ?.
2 after a verb of motion, hither, 1Sa 16:11 פֹה עַדבּֿאֹוֺ, Ezr 4:2.
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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