Word

פָּעַר

pâʻar · H6473 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

Action by which humans open wide their mouth, in order to eat or drink, to speak, or to menace (to open (one's mouth) wide)

Examples
Job 16:10 “They have gaped at me with their mouths, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.
Job 29:23 “They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouths as for the late rain.
Psalm 119:131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.

How it’s used In 3 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

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: they 2
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

פֶּהmouth 3

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 4 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against+ נִיme 1
בin/on/with+ פֶּהmouth 1
לto/for+ בְּלִיwithout, not 1
לto/for+ מַלְקוֹשׁlatter rain 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 2 words

פָּצָה pâtsâh · H6475 · to open (one's mouth) wide, to rescue, to deliver: Both words share the core sense of opening or gaping, especially of the mouth. פָּצָה (pâtsâh, H6475) has a broader range (deliver, rid, and speech-related senses), but they overlap in "gape" or "open."
פָּשַׂק pâsaq · H6589 · to open wide, to spread: Both lexemes are genuine action verbs meaning "to open wide" or "gape," sharing the same semantic space (physical opening/gaping). These are plausible near-synonyms—distinct Hebrew roots expressing overlapping senses of wide opening.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Open002001001042: פָּעַר means to gape or open wide, describing a mouth, pit, or grave opened widely beyond its normal bounds.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6473. paar [מָּעַר] verb open wide (the mouth) (Late Hebrew rarely = Biblical Hebrew,…

H6473. paar
[מָּעַר] verb open wide (the mouth) (Late Hebrew rarely = Biblical Hebrew, usually open bowels, go to stool; compare Jewish-Aramaic מְּעַר; Arabic and Syriac = Biblical Hebrew, chasm); —
Qal Perfect of voracious greed, figurative 3feminine singular מִּיהָ וּפָֽעֲרָה Isa 5:14 (of Sheôl), 3 plural בְּפִיהֶם עָלַי מָּֽעֲרוּ (Ges§ 119q) Job 16:10; of eager desire (good sense), מָּֽעֲרוּ מִּיהֶם Job 29:23, מִּיפָֿעַרְתִּי Psa 119:131.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Open4 occurrences

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