פֵּיָהpêyâh

mouth

Pronunciation: pay-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6366

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)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 3:16 So Ehud made a double-edged dagger that was about a foot long, and he strapped it to his right thigh, keeping it hidden under his clothing.

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).