פֹּהpôh
here, hither
Pronunciation: po · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6311
Meanings
1. here
a. here? (Genesis 19:12; Genesis 22:5; Genesis 40:15)
c. on this side … on that side (Ezekiel 40:12; Ezekiel 40:10; Ezekiel 40:21)
d. where?
2. hither, after a verb of motion (1 Samuel 16:11; Ezra 4:2)
Same root
- הוּאhûwʼ · H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- אֵיפֹהʼêyphôh · H375what place?; also (of time) when?; or (of means) how?
- אֵפוֹʼêphôw · H645strictly a demonstrative particle, here; but used of time, now or then
- פֵּאָהpêʼâh · H6285properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
Where it appears
Appears 82 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:12 Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. “Do you have any other relatives here in the city?” they asked. “Get them out of this place—your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else.
- Genesis 22:5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”
- Genesis 40:15 For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”
- Numbers 22:8 “Stay here overnight,” Balaam said. “In the morning I will tell you whatever the Lord directs me to say.” So the officials from Moab stayed there with Balaam.
- Numbers 32:6 “Do you intend to stay here while your brothers go across and do all the fighting?” Moses asked the men of Gad and Reuben.
- Numbers 32:16 But they approached Moses and said, “We simply want to build pens for our livestock and fortified towns for our wives and children.
See every passage
- Genesis 19:12, 22:5, 40:15
- Numbers 22:8, 32:6, 32:16
- Deuteronomy 5:3, 5:31, 12:8, 29:15
- Joshua 18:6, 18:8
- Judges 4:20, 18:3, 19:9
- Ruth 4:1, 4:2
- 1 Samuel 16:11, 21:8, 23:3
- 2 Samuel 20:4
- 1 Kings 2:30, 19:9, 19:13, 22:7
- 2 Kings 2:2, 2:4, 2:6, 3:11, 7:3, 7:4, 10:23
- 1 Chronicles 29:17
- 2 Chronicles 18:6
- Ezra 4:2
- Job 38:11
- Psalms 132:14
- Isaiah 22:16, 52:5
- Ezekiel 8:6, 8:9, 8:17, 40:10, 40:12, 40:21, 40:26, 40:34, 40:37, 40:39, 40:41, 40:48, 40:49, 41:1, 41:2, 41:15, 41:19, 41:26
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).