Midvash

פֶּהpeh

פֶּה: mouth

Pronunciation: peh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6310

Meanings

1.

a. mouth, of man, organ of eating and drinking (Genesis 25:28; Judges 7:6; 1 Samuel 14:26)

b. external organ (2 Kings 4:34; Proverbs 30:20; 1 Kings 19:18)

c. of ׳ י in theophany (2 Samuel 22:9; Psalms 18:9)

2.

a. much oftener, as organ of speech, of man (Genesis 45:12; 2 Samuel 1:16; Isaiah 9:16)

b. as laughing (Job 8:21; Psalms 126:2; Psalms 119:131)

c. of God (Isaiah 1:20; Isaiah 40:5; Jeremiah 9:11)

d. of idols (Psalms 115:5; Psalms 136:16; Psalms 136:17)

e. of musical instrument = sound (Amos 6:5)

3. of animals (Genesis 8:11; Isaiah 10:14; Numbers 22:28)

4. mouth, = opening, orifice (Genesis 29:2; Genesis 29:3; Genesis 29:8)

5.

a. extremity, end (2 Kings 10:21; 2 Kings 21:16; Ezra 9:11)

b. = portion (Deuteronomy 21:17; 2 Kings 2:9; Zechariah 13:8)

6. with prepositions

b. according to the command of, according to the mouth of (1 Chronicles 12:23; Exodus 16:21; Exodus 16:16)

c. b, according to (Genesis 47:12; Exodus 12:4; Exodus 16:16)

פֶּה: mouth (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:20; Daniel 4:28; Daniel 7:5; Daniel 6:23)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 498 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:11 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother’s blood.
  • Genesis 8:11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
  • Genesis 24:57 “Well,” they said, “we’ll call Rebekah and ask her what she thinks.”
  • Genesis 25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
  • Genesis 29:2 He saw a well in the distance. Three flocks of sheep and goats lay in an open field beside it, waiting to be watered. But a heavy stone covered the mouth of the well.
  • Genesis 29:3 It was the custom there to wait for all the flocks to arrive before removing the stone and watering the animals. Afterward the stone would be placed back over the mouth of the well.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).