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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6346

פֶּחָה

pechahpeh-khaw'

governor

28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pechâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6346is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 23
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6346

a prefect (of a city or small district)

The King James renders it: captain, deputy, governor.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

pechah is rendered "governor". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 10:15not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.

The first use

not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.

1 Kings 10:15וּפַח֥וֹת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-eight uses are in Nehemiah.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • governor of5
  • governors5
  • and governors of3
  • and the governors3
  • the governor3
  • governor2
  • governors its2
  • governors of2
  • governor their1
  • the governors1
  • to governor your1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

פֶּחָהpechahgovernorUses10
פֶּחָםpechamcoalUses3
פֶּחָרpecharpotterUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 28, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

23 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • פַּחַ֣ת3
  • וְהַפַּחוֹת֩2
  • פַּח֖וֹת2
  • פַחַ֥ת2
  • הַפֶּ֖חָה1
  • הַפֶּחָה֙1
  • הַפֶּחָ֔ה1
  • הַפַּח֞וֹת1
  • וְהַפַּח֗וֹת1
  • וּפַחֲו֖וֹת1
  • וּפַח֥וֹת1
  • וּפַח֣וֹת1

and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine plural5HNcfpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HC/Ncfpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural3HC/Td/Ncfpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcfpc/Sp3fs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HTd/Ncfpa

1 Kings

two uses
  • not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.

    1 Kings 10:15

    • וּפַח֥וֹתufachotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and governors of
  • So do this: Dismiss all the kings from their positions and replace them with other officers.

    1 Kings 20:24

    • פַּח֖וֹתpachotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: governors

2 Kings

one use
  • For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

    2 Kings 18:24

    • פַחַ֥תfachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor

2 Chronicles

one use
  • not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

    2 Chronicles 9:14

    • וּפַח֣וֹתufachotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and governors of

Ezra

one use
  • They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates, who proceeded to assist the people and the house of God.

    Ezra 8:36

    • וּפַחֲו֖וֹתufachavotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and governors of

Nehemiah

eight uses
  • I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.

    Nehemiah 2:7

    • פַּחֲו֖וֹתpachavotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governors of
  • Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.

    Nehemiah 2:9

    • פַּֽחֲווֹת֙pachavotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governors of
  • Next to them, repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates.

    Nehemiah 3:7

    • פַּחַ֖תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
  • Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

    Nehemiah 5:14

    • פֶּחָם֮pechamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: governor their
    • הַפֶּ֖חָהhapechahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the governor
  • The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

    Nehemiah 5:15

    • וְהַפַּחוֹת֩vehapachotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the governors
  • Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.

    Nehemiah 5:18

    • הַפֶּחָה֙hapechahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the governor
  • They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.

    Nehemiah 12:26

    • הַפֶּחָ֔הhapechahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the governor

Esther

three uses
  • On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.

    Esther 3:12

    • הַפַּח֞וֹתhapachotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the governors
  • At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

    Esther 8:9

    • וְהַפַּחוֹת֩vehapachotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the governors
  • And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

    Esther 9:3

    • וְהַפַּח֗וֹתvehapachotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the governors

Isaiah

one use
  • For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

    Isaiah 36:9

    • פַחַ֥תfachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor

Jeremiah

three uses
  • With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.

    Jeremiah 51:23

    • פַּח֖וֹתpachotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: governors
  • Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

    Jeremiah 51:28

    • פַּחוֹתֶ֖יהָpachoteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: governors its
  • I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

    Jeremiah 51:57

    • פַּחוֹתֶ֤יהָpachoteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: governors its

Ezekiel

three uses
  • clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

    Ezekiel 23:6

    • פַּח֣וֹתpachotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: governors
  • She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.

    Ezekiel 23:12

    • פַּח֨וֹתpachotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: governors
  • the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.

    Ezekiel 23:23

    • פַּח֤וֹתpachotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: governors

Haggai

four uses
  • In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating

    Haggai 1:1

    • פַּחַ֣תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
  • So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,

    Haggai 1:14

    • פַּחַ֣תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
  • “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,

    Haggai 2:2

    • פַּחַ֣תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
  • “Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:

    Haggai 2:21

    • פַּֽחַת־pachat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of

Malachi

one use
  • When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

    Malachi 1:8

    • לְפֶחָתֶ֗ךָlefechatekhapreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to governor your

The letters

Where it leads

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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