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# פֶּחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6346

**governor** — used 28 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

governor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6346/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּחָה: n.m. governor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6346/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 K 18:24 governor (loan-word from Assyrian paḫâti \[abbrev. from bêl paḫâti\], lord of a district; cf. perhaps Old Aramaic פחי governor);—abs. הַפּ׳ Ne 5:14, cstr. פַּחַ֫ת Hg 1:1 +, פַּחַת־ 2:21; sf. פֶּחָתֶ֑ךָ Mal 1:8, פֶּחֶם Ne 5:14 (but read prob. פֶּחָה); pl. abs. פַּחוֹת 1 K 20:24 +; cstr. פַּחוֹת 10:15 = 2 Ch 9:14, פַּחֲווֹת Ezr 8:36 +; sf. פַּחוֹתֶיהָ Je 51:28, 57;—as Assyrian captains 2 K 18:24 = Is 36:9 (פ׳, cf. StaZAW vi (1886), 182 al.), cf. Ez 23:6, 12; of Babylon Je 51:23, 57, and Bab. allies Ez 23:23; of Media Je 51:28; Pers. governor of עֵבֶר הַנָּהָר, i.e. in Pal., Hg 1:1, 14; 2:2, 21; Ne 2:7, 9 + 8 times; Pers. satraps in gen. Est 3:12; 8:9; 9:3; applied (by late writer) to Sol.’s governors 1 K 10:15 = 2 Ch 9:14; Benhadad’s captains 1 K 20:24 (del. v., Sta al.).—cf. Biblical Aramaic

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: governors (11); the governor (6); the governors (5).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.6/#tree)

לְבֻשֵׁ֤י תְכֵ֙לֶת֙ פַּח֣וֹת וּסְגָנִ֔ים בַּח֥וּרֵי חֶ֖מֶד כֻּלָּ֑ם פָּרָשִׁ֕ים רֹכְבֵ֖י סוּסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* clothed of.blue governors and officials young.men of.desire of.them all horsemen \[who\].rode of.horses

*JPS 1917:* clothed with blue, governors and rulers, handsome young men all of them, horsemen riding upon horses.

[Haggai 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.2.21/#tree)

אֱמֹ֕ר אֶל־זְרֻבָּבֶ֥ל פַּֽחַת־יְהוּדָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר אֲנִ֣י מַרְעִ֔ישׁ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* say to Zerubbabel the.governor of.Judah (cmp) I \[am\].about.to.shake (et) the heavens and (et) the earth

*JPS 1917:* 'Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: I will shake the heavens and the earth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6346.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6346/): 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).