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# פֹּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6311

**here** — used 82 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

here [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6311/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֹּה: adv.loc. here, hither [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6311/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Ez 40–41, 23 out of 35 times) פּוֹ, also †Jb 38:11b פֹּא, adv.loc. here, hither (prob. from the same demonst. √ found in ف so, then (often in apod.), אַף, אֵפוֹא: cf. Köii. 1, 247 f., 243, 331 f.):— here: Gn 19:12 עֹד מִי־לְךָ פֹה whom hast thou still here? 22:5 שְׁבוּ לָכֶם פֹּה, 40:15; Nu 22:8; 32:16 Dt 5:28; 12:8 Ju 4:20 הֲיֵשׁ פֹּה אִישׁ, 2 K 3:11, etc.; asked in some surprise, Ju 18:3 מַה־לְּךָ פֹה = what is thy business here? simil. †1 K 19:9, 13; Is 22:16; 52:5 וְעַתָּה מַה־לִּי־פֹה. Cf. the syn. בָּזֶה, כֹּה 2. עַד־פֹּה †Jb 38:11a. מִפֹּה or מִפּוֹ, only Ez 40–41, and always (except 40:12a, where it must be supplied with 𝔊 𝔖) repeated, on this side … on that side (cf. מִזֶּה … מִזֶּה), Ez 40:10(×2), 12b, b, 21(×2), etc. with the interrog. אֵי, אֵיפֹה where? v. p. 33. after a verb of motion, hither, 1 S 16:11 עַד־בֹּאוֹ פֹה, Ezr 4:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: here (80); \[is\] here (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 132:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.132.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.132.14/#tree)

זֹאת־מְנוּחָתִ֥י עֲדֵי־עַ֑ד פֹּֽה־אֵ֝שֵׁ֗ב כִּ֣י אִוִּתִֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* this resting.place \[is\].my until perpetuity here I.will.dwell (dm) I have.desired.it

*JPS 1917:* 'This is My resting-place for ever; here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

[Ruth 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.2/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֞ח עֲשָׂרָ֧ה אֲנָשִׁ֛ים מִזִּקְנֵ֥י הָעִ֖יר וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁבוּ־פֹ֑ה וַיֵּשֵֽׁבוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.took ten men of the.elders of the.city and he.said sit here and they.sat.down

*JPS 1917:* And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said: 'Sit ye down here.' And they sat down.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6311.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6311/): 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).