Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H6347
פֶּחָה
pechahpeh-khaw'
governor
10 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 H6347is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6347
{a prefect (of a city or small district)}
The King James renders it: captain, 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 10 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 5:3At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
Ezra 5:3פַּחַ֧ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- governor of5
- and governors the4
- governor1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- וּֽפַחֲוָתָ֡א2
- פַּחַ֧ת2
- וּפַחֲוָתָא֮1
- וּפַחֲוָתָ֔א1
- פֶחָ֖ה1
- פַּחַ֣ת1
- פַּחַ֨ת1
- פַּחַ֤ת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5ANcfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)4AC/Ncfpd/Ta
- noun · feminine singular1ANcfsa
Ezra
six uses
At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
- פַּחַ֧תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
This is the text of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates, the officials in the region, sent to King Darius.
- פַּחַ֣תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor
- פֶחָ֖הfechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: governor
Therefore Darius decreed: To Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates and officials in the region: You must stay away from that place!
- פַּחַ֨תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
Leave this work on the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.
- פַּחַ֤תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
In response, Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.
- פַּחַ֧תpachatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: governor of
Daniel
four uses
Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other officials of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue he had set up.
- וּֽפַחֲוָתָ֡אufachavata'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and governors the
So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the rulers of the provinces assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.
- וּֽפַחֲוָתָ֡אufachavata'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and governors the
and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.
- וּפַחֲוָתָא֮ufachavata'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and governors the
All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.
- וּפַחֲוָתָ֔אufachavata'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and governors the
Where it leads
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 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.