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# פָּעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6463

**groan** — 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

groan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6463/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּעָה: vb. groan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6463/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. groan (onomatop. according to Thes; NH Hiph. bleat, so Arabic بعى, بغى Dozy; Aramaic פְּעָא, ܦܥܳܐ bleat);—Impf. 1 s. כַּיּוֹלֵדָה אֶפְעֶה Is 42:14 (of י׳ straining himself to deliver Isr., + אֶשֹּׁם \[נשׁם\], אֶשְׁאַף).—\[אֶפַע\] Is 41:24, v. p. 67.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 42:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.14/#tree)

הֶחֱשֵׁ֙יתִי֙ מֵֽעוֹלָ֔ם אַחֲרִ֖ישׁ אֶתְאַפָּ֑ק כַּיּוֹלֵדָ֣ה אֶפְעֶ֔ה אֶשֹּׁ֥ם וְאֶשְׁאַ֖ף יָֽחַד׃

*Word for word:* I.have.been.silent from a.long.time I.have.kept.silent I.have.restrained.myself like.(the) \[woman who\].gives.birth I.groan I.puff and I.pant together

*JPS 1917:* I have long time held My peace, I have been still, and refrained Myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman, gasping and panting at once.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6463.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6463/): 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).