פָּאָה
to shatter
‘to shatter’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6284 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
About this entry
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פאה — transliterated pâʼâh — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to shatter.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Deuteronomy (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Deuteronomy 32:26. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6284 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: I would scatter them into corners 1×
- American Standard Version: I would scatter them afar 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: I would cut them to pieces 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I would wipe them out 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6284 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6284 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6284 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6284 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to cleave in pieces, break into pieces, shatter
- (Hiphil) to cleave in pieces, dash to pieces
Word origin
[ פָּאָה ] vb. perh. cleave in pieces;— Hiph. Dt 32:26
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פֵּאָה
- פאה to split, divide; v. Ges. H. Dict.12 s. v.) section, segment, corner.—Pl. פֵּאוֹת, פֵּי׳. Erub. 51ᵃ (ref. to Num. XXXV, 5) פ׳ כתיבן the text speaks of corners (angular additions); ib. לזה אתה נותן פ׳ אין אתה נותן פ׳ וכ׳ for this purpose (the definition of suburbs) you allow corners to be included (i.e. square measurements), but you must not allow corners to those appointing a Sabbath center (שְׁבִיתָה), i.e. you must allow them to walk only within a circle the radius of which is two thousand cubits. Ib. 11ᵃ בארבע פ׳ השדה Ar. (ed. פינות) in the four corners of the field; a. e.—Esp. e.g. Numbers 35:5
- 1. פְּאַת ראש the hair on the temples; פאת זקן the hair on the chin. Macc. III, 5 המקיף פ׳ ראשו והמשחית פ׳ זקנו (v. Lev. XIX, 27) he who cuts off (shaves) the hair of his temples and destroys the hair of his chins; expl. ib. 20ᵇ פאת ראשו סוף ראשו וכ׳ the peah of his head means cutting the tail-end of the hair of his head … making his temples as smooth as the spot behind the ear and as the forehead; פאת זקנו סוף זקנו וכ׳ the peah of his chin means the pointed ends of his chin &c., v. שִׁיבּוֹלֶת; Sifra K’dosh., Par. 3, ch. VI; a. e.—In gen. curls; פ׳ נכרית strange (false) curls, wig. Sabb. VI, 5. Naz. 28ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Leviticus 19:27
- 2. (פאת שדה) the corner of the field, the portion of the harvest left for the poor, peah (Lev. XIX, 9 sq.) Sifra K’dosh., Par. 1, ch. I פטור מן הלקט … והפ׳ is exempt from the duty of leaving for the poor the gleanings, the forgotten sheaf, and the corner. Ib. חייבים בפ׳ are subject to peah. Ib. אין פ׳ אלא מחמת הכילוי וכ׳ the title of peah comes only through the finishing (of the cutting of the field, i.e. if one left a plot uncut in the middle of a field, the poor cannot take it, before the field is entirely cut), and only when it has a name (has been designated by the owner as the poor man’s share), and the real peah is only that which is left at the end (i.e. he who has left a plot in the middle, must also leave a corner); ib. נתן בתחילה הרי זו פ׳ if he left a portion on beginning to cut or in the middle, it is peah (belongs to the poor, and is exempt from tithes &c.); Peah I, 3; a. v. fr. e.g. Leviticus 19:9
- 3. (transf.) braid, vines plaited together so as to form a cover or a partition. Tosef. Kil. IV, 5 אם היו קנים מדוקרנין עושה אותן פ׳ מלמעלה ומותר if forked reeds were standing there, he forms a plait above, and it is permitted (it forms a partition with regard to mixed seeds); Erub. 11ᵇ. Y. Kil. IV, 29ᵇ מציל משום פ׳ it saves (makes the place marked off by reeds a partitioned field) the same as a garland of vines. Ib. הדא פ׳ מה את וכ׳ what do you mean by that peah? do you mean overhead, or on the side? Ib. bot. הפ׳ אינה וכ׳ the ‘plait’ does not save (is not considered a partition), unless it is solidly joined on four sides. Ib. פ׳ מהו שתציל בסוכה do intertwined vines form a partition with regard to Succah (to be considered a wall)?; Y. Succ. I, 52ᵃ bot. Erub. l. c. top פ׳ מותרת לענין כלאים וכ׳ (Ms. M. פ׳ קליעית קליעית, being a gloss to פ׳; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) ‘braids’ form a partition with regard to mixed seeds, but not with regard to Sabbath laws; a. fr.—Peah, name of a treatise of Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud Y’rushalmi, of the Order of Z’raʿim.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
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