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# פָּאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6284

**cleave in pieces** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cleave in pieces [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6284/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּאָה: vb. cleave in pieces Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6284/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. perhaps (si vera l.) cleave in pieces (Arabic (فأى, فأو) فَاأَ cleave, split (head, bowl, etc.); Sab. פעי DHMZMG xxx (1876), 701 f.);— Impf. 1 s. sf. אַפְאֵיהֶם Dt 32:26 I \[י׳\] will cleave them in pieces (poss. point אֶפ׳, i.e. Qal; on other views v. Dr; read perhaps אֲפִיצֵם 𝔊 Gr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.26/#tree)

אָמַ֖רְתִּי אַפְאֵיהֶ֑ם אַשְׁבִּ֥יתָה מֵאֱנ֖וֹשׁ זִכְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.said I will.cut.them.in.pieces I.will.make.cease from humankind remembrance their

*JPS 1917:* I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6284.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6284/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).