Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6621
פֶּתַע
pethapeh'-thah
suddenness
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pethaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6621is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6621
a wink, i.e. moment(used only (with or without preposition) adverbially, quickly or unexpectedly
The King James renders it: at an instant, suddenly, [idiom] very.
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
petha is rendered "suddenness". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 6:9If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
Numbers 6:9בְּפֶ֣תַע
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
- in an instant2
- suddenly2
- to suddenness2
- an instant1
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.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- פֶּ֥תַע2
- בְּפֶ֣תַע1
- בְּפֶ֥תַע1
- לְפֶ֥תַע1
- לְפֶ֖תַע1
- פֶ֗תַע1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
Numbers
two uses
If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
- בְּפֶ֣תַעbefeta'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in an instant
But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
- בְּפֶ֥תַעbefeta'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in an instant
Proverbs
two uses
Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
- פֶּ֥תַעpeta'noun · masculine singulartagged: an instant
A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- פֶּ֥תַעpeta'noun · masculine singulartagged: suddenly
Isaiah
two uses
But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- לְפֶ֥תַעlefeta'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to suddenness
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
- לְפֶ֖תַעlefeta'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to suddenness
Habakkuk
one use
Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.
- פֶ֗תַעfeta'noun · masculine singulartagged: suddenly
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.