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Lexicon :: Strong's H6346 - peḥâ

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פֶּחָה
Transliteration
peḥâ
Pronunciation
peh-khaw'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign origin
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TWOT Reference: 1757

Strong’s Definitions

פֶּחָה pechâh, peh-khaw'; of foreign origin; a prefect (of a city or small district):—captain, deputy, governor.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's H6346 in the following manner: governor (17x), captain (9x), deputies (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's H6346 in the following manner: governor (17x), captain (9x), deputies (2x).

  1. governor

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פֶּחָה pechâh, peh-khaw'; of foreign origin; a prefect (of a city or small district):—captain, deputy, governor.
STRONGS H6346: Abbreviations
פֶּחָה 28 noun masculine 2 Kings 18:24 governor (loan-word from Assyrian paḫâti [abbreviated from bel paḫâti], lord of a district; compare perhaps Old Aramaic פחי governor); — absolute הַפּ׳ Nehemiah 5:14, construct פַּחַ֫ת Haggai 1:1 +, פַּחַת־ Haggai 2:21; suffix פֶּחָחֵ֑ךָ Malachi 1:8, פֶּחַם Nehemiah 5:14 (but read probably פֶּחָה); plural absolute פַּחוֹת 1 Kings 20:24 +; construct פַּחוֹת 1 Kings 10:15 2 Chronicles 9:14, פַּחֲווֹת Ezra 8:36 +; suffix פַּחוֹתֶיהָ Jeremiah 51:28, 57; — as Assyr. captains 2 Kings 18:24 = Isaiah 36:9 (< strike out פ׳, compare StaZAW vi (1886), 182 and others), compare Ezekiel 23:6, 12; of Babylon Jeremiah 51:23, 57, and Babylonian allies Ezekiel 23:23; of Media Jeremiah 51:28; Persian governor of עֵבֶר הַנָּהָר, i. e. in Palestine, Haggai 1:1, 14; Haggai 2:2, 21; Nehemiah 2:7, 9 + 8 times; Persian satraps in general Esther 3:12; Esther 8:9; Esther 9:3; applied (by late writer) to Solomon's governors 1 Kings 10:15 2 Chronicles 9:14; Benhadad's captains 1 Kings 20:24 (strike out see, Sta and others). — compare Biblical Aramaic H6347.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

10:15; 10:15; 20:24; 20:24

2 Kings

18:24; 18:24

2 Chronicles

9:14; 9:14

Ezra

8:36

Nehemiah

2:7; 2:9; 5:14; 5:14

Esther

3:12; 8:9; 9:3

Isaiah

36:9

Jeremiah

51:23; 51:28; 51:28; 51:57; 51:57

Ezekiel

23:6; 23:12; 23:23

Haggai

1:1; 1:1; 1:14; 2:2; 2:21; 2:21

Malachi

1:8

H6346

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Strong's Number H6346 matches the Hebrew פֶּחָה (peḥâ),
which occurs 28 times in 27 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:15 - besides that from the traders, and the [fn]wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors H6346 of the country.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:24 - “Carry out this [fn]plan: remove the kings, each from his place, and put governors H6346 in their place,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:24 - “How then can you drive back even [fn]one [fn]official H6346 of the least of my master’s servants, and [fn]rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14 - besides what the traders and merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and the governors H6346 of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:36 - Then they delivered the king’s edicts to the king’s satraps and the governors H6346 in the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, and they supported the people and the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me for the governors H6346 of the provinces beyond the River, so that they will allow me to pass through until I come to Judah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 -

Then I came to the governors H6346 of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:7 - Next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, [fn]also made repairs for the official seat of the governor H6346 of the province beyond the Euphrates River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:14 -

Furthermore, since the day that I was appointed to be their governor H6346 in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my kinsmen have eaten the governor’s H6346 food allowance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the previous governors H6346 who were before me [fn]laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of my fear of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep; also birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all sorts of wine were provided in abundance. Yet for all this I did not request the governor’s H6346 food allowance, because the forced labor was heavy on this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:26 - These men served in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor H6346 and Ezra the priest and scribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 -

Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps, to the governors H6346 who were over each province and to the officials of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 -

So the king’s scribes were summoned at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third [fn]day; and it was written in accordance with everything that Mordecai commanded the Jews, the satraps, the governors H6346, and the officials of the provinces which extended from India to [fn]Cush, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language, as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:3 - Even all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors H6346, and those who were doing the king’s business were supporting the Jews, because the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:9 - “How then can you [fn]drive back even one [fn]official H6346 of the least of my master’s servants and [fn]rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:23 -

And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,

And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,

And with you I shatter governors H6346 and officials.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 -

Consecrate the nations against her,

The kings of the Medes,

[fn]Their governors H6346 and all [fn]their officials,

And every land [fn]under their control.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:57 -

“I will make her leaders and her wise men drunk,

Her governors H6346, her officials, and her warriors,

So that they will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”

Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of armies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - who were clothed in purple, governors H6346 and officials, all of them handsome young men, horsemen riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - “She lusted after the [fn]Assyrians, governors H6346 and officials, the ones near, opulently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them handsome young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the [fn]Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the [fn]Assyrians with them; handsome young men, governors H6346 and officials all of them, officers and [fn]men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:1 -

In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor H6346 of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:14 - So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor H6346 of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of armies, their God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:2 - “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor H6346 of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:21 - “Speak to Zerubbabel governor H6346 of Judah, saying, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:8 - “And when you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not evil? Or when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not evil? So offer it to your governor H6346! Would he be pleased with you, or would he receive you kindly?” says the LORD of armies.
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