פָּעָה
pâʻâh · H6463 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to scream, to cry out, to groan, to moan
Exact meaning unknown; possibly: action by which humans make inarticulate sounds, caused by deep emotion that has been kept in check too long, and associated with the sounds produced by a woman in labor
ExamplesIsaiah 42:14 “I have kept silent for a long time, I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I will groan, I will both gasp and pant.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as+ יָלַדto bear 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 3 words
- זָעַק zâʻaq · H2199 · to cry, to cry out, to cry for help
- זָעַק is a common Hebrew verb for crying out, shouting, or calling, especially in contexts of distress or appeal, making it a close synonym to פָּעָה in the domain of vocal outcry.
- צָעַק tsâʻaq · H6817 · to cry out, to call for help, to appeal
- צָעַק denotes crying out or shouting, often in distress or urgency, functioning as a near synonym for פָּעָה in the semantic field of vocal utterance.
- שָׁוַע shâvaʻ · H7768 · to cry out, to cry for help
- שָׁוַע specifically denotes crying out for help or deliverance, often used in contexts of appeal to God, overlapping with פָּעָה's sense of vocal outcry.
In the other Testament 2 words
- κράζω krázō · G2896 · to shout, to scream
- κράζω is the standard Greek verb for 'cry out' or 'shout,' corresponding directly to the Hebrew פָּעָה's sense of vocal outcry or crying.
- βοάω boáō · G994 · to cry out, to scream, to shout
- βοάω denotes crying out or shouting, often in contexts of distress or calling for help, paralleling the vocal outcry sense of פָּעָה.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- פָּעָה means to cry out, as of the LORD who compares himself to a woman crying out in the pain of childbirth in Isaiah 42:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6463. paah [מָּעָה] verb groan (onomatopoetic according to Thes; Late Hebrew Hiph`il…
[מָּעָה] verb groan (onomatopoetic according to Thes; Late Hebrew Hiph`il bleat, so Arabic , , Dozy; Aramaic מְּעָא bleat,); — Imperfect1singular אֶפְעֶה כַּיּוֺלֵדָה Isa 42:14 (of ׳י staining himself to deliver Israel, +אֶשֹּׁם [נשׁם], אֶשְׁאַף). — [אֶפַע] Isa 41:26..
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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