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# פֶּקַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6492

**Pekah** — used 11 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

Pekah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6492/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫קַח: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6492/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. usurping king of Israel, Φακεε (opening (? of eyes), or cf. Syriac ܦܶܩܚܳܐ flower; cf. n.pr.m. פקח, פקחי, on old Isr. seals; in Assyrian Paḳaḫa (acc.) SchrCOT 2 K 15:30);—2 K 15:25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37; 16:1, 5; Is 7:1; 2 Ch 28:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Pekah (9); of Pekah (2).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 15:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.32/#tree)

בִּשְׁנַ֣ת שְׁתַּ֔יִם לְפֶ֥קַח בֶּן־רְמַלְיָ֖הוּ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מָלַ֛ךְ יוֹתָ֥ם בֶּן־עֻזִיָּ֖הוּ מֶ֥לֶךְ יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in year two of Pekah the.son of.Remaliah the.king of.Israel he.became.king Jotham the.son of.Uzziah the.king of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

[2 Kings 16:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.16.1/#tree)

בִּשְׁנַת֙ שְׁבַֽע־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לְפֶ֖קַח בֶּן־רְמַלְיָ֑הוּ מָלַ֛ךְ אָחָ֥ז בֶּן־יוֹתָ֖ם מֶ֥לֶךְ יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in year seven- teen year of Pekah the.son of.Remaliah he.became.king Ahaz the.son of.Jotham the.king of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6492.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6492/): 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).