Word

פֶּחָה

pechâh · H6347 · Aramaic · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

governor

A regional governor within a larger kingdom, responsible for enforcing the law of the king, collecting taxes for the king, and leading regional armies

Examples
Ezra 5:3 At that time Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues came to them and spoke to them as follows: “Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?”
Ezra 5:6 This is the copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and his colleagues the officials, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.
Ezra 5:14 ‘Also the gold and silver utensils of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought them to the temple of Babylon, King Cyrus took them from the temple of Babylon and they were given to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor.

How it’s used In 4 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

5 occurrences in 2 groups

עֲבַרbeyond 4
יְהוּדָאִיJew 1

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 1 groups

תַּתְּנַיTatnai 4

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בְּנָאbuild 1
יְעַטcounsellor 1
כָּנַשׁgather together 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שׂוּםcommand 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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Near synonyms 5 words

טִפְסַר ṭiphçar · H2951 · marshal, recruiting-officer, commander: Both lexemes denote types of officials or leaders ("captain" / "captain, governor"), which is genuine semantic overlap in the same functional space (leadership/administrative roles).
פָּקִיד pâqîyd · H6496 · officer, overseer, leader: Both words denote roles of authority and leadership and both can refer to governors or officials, with substitutable senses.
שַׂר sar · H8269 · commander, chief, captain: Both words denote administrative and leadership roles (officials, governors, captains), two words for overlapping leadership and official roles.
סָגָן çâgân · H5461 · prefect, official: V3 (qualitative): Both lexemes denote official administrative roles/authority figures and occupy genuinely overlapping semantic space (high-level appointed officials in governmental/military contexts).
אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּן ʼăchashdarpan · H323 · governor, satrap: The "Officials" domain is large (38 members), weakening the signal. Both lexemes denote administrative authority roles, but אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּן (ʼăchashdarpan, H323) (lieutenant) suggests a specific Persian administrative title with narrow scope (4 occurrences, likely all in Daniel/Esther contexts), while פֶּחָה (pechâh, H6347) (captain, governor) is a broader Hebrew/Aramaic term.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Leaders001001003005: Ezra 5:3 recounts that “Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues came to them.”
Officials001001003007: This same word in Ezra 5:3 — “the governor” — carries the identical sense as well, since the same office is classified under both a leadership domain and an officials domain.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פֶּחָה pechâh · H6346 · governor · 28×פֶּחָהpechâh · H6347

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6347. pechah מֶּחָה noun masculine (Babylonian or Persian) governor (Assyrian loan-word,…

H6347. pechah
מֶּחָה noun masculine (Babylonian or Persian) governor (Assyrian loan-word, Biblical Hebrew id.); — absolute ׳פ Ezr 5:14; construct מַּחַת Ezr 5:3, Ezr 5:6; Ezr 6:6-7, Ezr 6:13; plural emphatic מַּחֲוָתָא Dan 3:2-3, Dan 3:27; Dan 6:1.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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