Hebrew words starting with pe
315 words in the Bible begin with pe (פ), listed most frequent first. This is page 1 of 2. Every word links to its meaning, its attested forms, and the verses it appears in.
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- panehפָּנֶהthe face: the front of a person's head, the look it carries, and the presence of the one who turns it toward you
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- the front or surface of a thing: the outer side it turns toward you
- the position words built on this noun: before, in front of, away from, and so because of
- pehפֶּהthe mouth: the opening in the face used to eat and drink and above all to speak, and so, by a natural step, the speech, words, or command that come out of it
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- the mouth of a thing: the opening of a well, sack, cave, or pit, the edge of a sword that devours, and the reach from one end of a place to the other
- a fixed relating phrase in which the word stops meaning a body part: in proportion to, or at the command of
- a measured portion or share, above all the double portion that names the firstborn's part of an inheritance
- paqadפָּקַדto turn one's attention to someone and act on it: to step in, whether to help or to harm.
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- to count people one by one for a purpose: to take a census, or to call up and review fighting men.
- to put someone in charge: to appoint a person over people or things and entrust the responsibility to them.
- to entrust something to someone's keeping: to hand over goods, money, or a charge for safekeeping.
- pelishtiפְּלִשְׁתִּיPhilistine: a member of the coastal people who settled southwest of Israel and became its long-running rival
- parohפַּרְעֹהPharaoh: the king of Egypt, named by his royal title rather than his birth name
- petaḥפֶּתַחthe opening into a structure: the doorway or entrance of a tent, house, gate, or city, the place where you go in or come out.
- pataḥפָּתַחto open, loosen, or release: to move something closed or bound into an open state
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- to engrave or carve: to cut characters or images into a hard surface
- panahפָּנָהto turn so as to face a direction, person, or thing, with all that the turn implies: to look toward, attend to, or move away from
- penפֶּן־lestnot studied yet
- parפַּרa young bull, the prime full-grown male of the herd brought for sacrifice
- periפְּרִיfruit: what a tree, vine, or field brings forth, and what a person or nation yields when pictured as a growing plant
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- offspring: the young a person or an animal brings forth, named as the fruit of the body
- result: what a person's conduct, words, or work produces, the outcome it earns
- pa'amפַּעַםa time: a single instance of something happening, counted out and often added up
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- a foot, or the step a foot makes: the tread of a person walking, often used of the path one's life takes
- a pedestal-foot: one of the cast metal corner-feet that the ark and other holy furniture rested on
- peshahפֶּשַׁעrebellion: the deliberate breaking of a bond you were obligated to keep
- pe'ahפֵּאָהa side, edge, or corner: the outer face or boundary of something, whether a direction, a margin, or a far extremity
- palalפָּלַלto pray: to lay a matter before God and ask him to act on it, for oneself or for someone else
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- to render a judgment: to step between two sides and settle a case, or to size up how a matter stands
- pohפֹּהhere: this place, where the speaker is, as opposed to anywhere else
- palaפָּלָאto surpass the ordinary: what is too hard for a person and what is wondrous from God are two perspectives on the same crossing of a normal limit
- putsפּוּץto scatter: to drive people or things apart so they spread out over a wide area
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- to overflow: to spill out and flow abroad like water from a spring
- to shatter: to break something into pieces by a hard blow
- parasפָּרַשׂto spread out: to open something wide or stretch it flat across a space.
- padahפָּדָהto ransom: to free a person or thing held by another by handing over a substitute in its place
- pa'alפָּעַלto do, make, or accomplish: to bring something about by deliberate action
- parashפָּרָשׁa war-horse: a horse bred and harnessed for battle, especially a chariot-team horse
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- a fighting man who works with horses: a chariot crewman in early times, a mounted soldier in later times
- pararפָּרַרto break something binding so it no longer holds: to annul a covenant, vow, or law, or to frustrate a plan
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- to break apart, shatter, or split into pieces
- paḥadפַּחַדdread: overwhelming fear that grips a person or sweeps over a people, and by extension the dreadful thing that causes it
- pesaḥפֶּסַחthe Passover: the yearly festival on the fourteenth of the first month that recalls Israel's rescue from Egypt
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- the Passover offering: the lamb or goat slaughtered, roasted, and eaten at the festival
- paratsפָּרַץto break through: force a way through a barrier so that what was held back bursts out the other side
- pagaפָּגַעto meet or come upon someone or something, whether by chance or on purpose
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- of a border or boundary: to reach, touch, or run up to a place
- to fall upon someone: to attack, strike down, or kill
- to approach someone with a request: to entreat, urge, plead, or intercede
- pashatפָּשַׁטto strip off: to take clothing or covering off someone or something, including skinning an animal or plundering the dead.
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- to make a raid: to rush out and fall upon a place or people, spreading out to plunder.
- pashahפָּשַׁעto revolt against a ruler: to throw off the authority of a king or overlord and break away.
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- to rebel against God: to break faith with the One you owe loyalty to, treating sin as defiance rather than mere failure.
- pilegeshפִּלֶגֶשׁa legally recognized secondary wife: a woman in a genuine but lower-ranking marriage bond
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- a male sexual partner: a man used for sexual purposes (masculine extension, Ezekiel only)
- po'alפֹּעַלwork or deed: what someone does, along with what that doing earns or produces
- paraḥפָּרַחto bud, sprout, or blossom; to burst into growth, and so to thrive
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- to fly
- penimiפְּנִימִיinner: the more inward of two spaces, the interior one
- pequddahפְּקֻדָּהa visitation: God's decisive coming to deal with a person or people, most often to punish and sometimes to help
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- oversight: a charge or office entrusted to someone, with responsibility to answer for it
- a mustering: the counting of people and the numbered company it produces
- a store: goods laid up or set in reserve
- peselפֶּסֶלa carved cult image: a statue made to worship, forbidden in Israel
- pinnahפִּנָּהcorner: the angle where two sides of a structure meet, and by extension the cornerstone set there and a leader who holds a people together like one
- parahפָּרָהto be fruitful: to bring forth offspring or produce in abundance
- peḥahפֶּחָהa governor: an official a king or empire appoints to administer a province or command a region on the ruler's behalf
- peletahפְּלֵיטָהgetting out of a disaster alive: both the escape itself and the people who come through it
- parasפָּרַסPersia: the kingdom that took Babylon's place as the world power over the Jewish people, along with the land and people it is named for
- patahפָּתָהto make wide or roomy: to enlarge a person's space and give them room to spread out
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- to sway an open or gullible mind: to entice, persuade, or seduce someone, or to be the naive, easily led person who is swayed
- paḥפַּחa snare: a fowler's spring-trap that snaps shut on a bird, and by extension any hidden trap that catches a victim unawares
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- a thin sheet of hammered metal beaten out flat
- palatפָּלַטto bring safely out of danger: to deliver, rescue, or come safely through.
- paradפָּרַדto separate, divide, or part: to draw a boundary between things once joined, so that they stand apart.
- parahפָּרָהa cow or heifer: the adult female of domestic cattle
- paḥadפָּחַדto tremble with dread: to be seized by sudden, body-shaking fear
- pinḥasפִּינְחָסPhinehasnot studied yet
- porekhetפָּרֹכֶתthe veil: the heavy, richly woven curtain hung across the sanctuary that sealed off the innermost room where God's presence dwelt.
- pitomפִּתְאֹםsuddenly: happening all at once and without warning, catching people unprepared
- palitפָּלִיטa survivor: someone who has escaped a deadly danger and gotten away alive
- piqqudפִּקּוּדan entrusted charge: a directive God has personally laid on his people as their assigned duty.
- pesilפָּסִילa carved idol: an image of a god cut and shaped by hand from wood, stone, or metal to be worshiped
- perizziפְּרִזִּיPerizzitenot studied yet
- pegerפֶּגֶרa corpse: a dead body left lying, whether of a person, an animal, or a lifeless idol
- pasahפָּשָׂהto spread: (of a disease or blemish) to advance and cover more of a surface.
- parsahפַּרְסָהhoof: the hard, horny foot of a grazing animal or horse
- paqaḥפָּקַחto open the eyes (or ears): to bring the faculty of perception into action, whether by waking, granting sight, or turning one's gaze toward someone
- peretsפֶּרֶץa breach: a gap broken open in a wall, and by extension a sudden bursting or breaking through.
- peratפְּרָתthe Euphrates: the great river of Mesopotamia, which Israel's Scriptures treat as the far northern edge of the promised land
- petiפֶּתִיa person whose mind and loyalties are still open and unformed: naive and easily led, yet teachable, the raw material wisdom hopes to shape.
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- naive openness itself, treated as a quality: the untaught, gullible state the simple person needs to leave behind.
- peraḥפֶּרַחa blossom or flower: the bloom of a plant, and by extension a flower-shaped ornament in metal or carving
- paraפָּרַעto let loose or set free from restraint: to unbind, release, or let go of what was being held in check
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- to lead, to take the lead (a contested sense resting on a single verse)
- pishtehפֵּשֶׁתflax: the fiber plant and the raw fiber combed from it, and the linen thread and cloth woven from it
- patsahפָּצָהto open the mouth wide: to part the lips or gape open
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- to rescue: to snatch or pry someone free from danger
- peredפֶּרֶדmule: the hybrid of a horse and a donkey, used as a riding and pack animal and prized as a royal mount
- peretsפֶּרֶץPereznot studied yet
- patפַּתa morsel: a small piece broken off, most often a bit of bread
- pa'arפָּאַרto make beautiful or glorious: to adorn, to bestow honor, or, of oneself, to display or claim splendor.
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- to go back over the branches of a harvested tree, to strip the boughs a second time.
- pagashפָּגַשׁto meet: to come face to face with a person or thing, whether by chance on a road, in welcome, or in sudden attack
- pu'aḥפּוּחַto blow or breathe: to send air moving, whether a breeze wafting coolness and scent, the stoking of a fire, or a scornful snort
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- a witness: one who gives testimony in a dispute, whether a truthful witness or a lying one
- pisse'aḥפִּסֵּחַlame: unable to walk normally because the legs or feet are damaged
- pe'ullahפְּעֻלָּהwhat work brings back: the pay, reward, or payback earned by labor, and at times the labor itself
- parasפָּרַסto break in two: to part a whole thing into pieces
- pashḥurפַּשְׁחוּרPashhurnot studied yet
- peleפֶּלֶאa wonder: an act or thing so far past what people can do or figure out that it can only be credited to God
- penimahפְּנִימָהinside: on the interior of a building, or going in there, as opposed to outside
- paqidפָּקִידan appointed overseer: the man someone in authority puts in charge of a group, a place, or a piece of business, and who answers back to whoever appointed him
- paḥat mo'avפַּחַת מוֹאָבPahath-moabnot studied yet
- peterפֶּטֶרthe first offspring to open a mother's womb, whether a child or a newborn animal, which the law set apart for God
- paranפָּארָןParannot studied yet
- paddanפַּדָּןPaddannot studied yet
- peqaḥפֶּקַחPekahnot studied yet
- pittu'aḥפִּתּוּחַengraved or carved work: a design or inscription deliberately cut into a hard surface such as gem, metal, wood, or stone
- patilפָּתִילa twisted cord: a thin strand of spun or braided fiber, used to tie, carry, mark, or measure
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- fastened tight: said of a covering sealed down onto a jar so that nothing can pass in or out
- pazarפָּזַרto scatter: to spread or drive something widely apart, whether flinging enemies and exiles abroad or handing out one's goods freely
- paḥatפַּחַתa pit: a hole in the ground deep enough to swallow whoever drops into it
- pelegפֶּלֶגa channel of flowing liquid: a branch of water split off from a larger river to carry and distribute it.
- pelekhפֶּלֶךְa spindle: the weighted hand tool used to twist loose wool or flax into thread
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- a district: an administrative division of the land with an official set over it
- pereפֶּרֶאwild donkey: the untamed desert donkey that no one has ever owned or broken to harness
- paraqפָּרַקto tear off or pull apart by force: to wrench something loose from what holds it
- pazפַּזfine gold: the purest, most refined grade of gold, a word Hebrew poetry reserves for gold at its most precious
- patarפָּטַרto let go: to release a person from a duty, let something out that was held back, or break free of a grip
- penu'elפְּנוּאֵלPenielnot studied yet
- patarפָּתַרto interpret a dream: to unlock what a puzzling dream means and say what it announces
- pedahtsurפְּדָהצוּרPedahzurnot studied yet
- pedayahפְּדָיָהוּPedaiahnot studied yet
- purפּוּרa lot: the small object thrown to let chance settle a decision, named here with a foreign word the storyteller has to explain
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- Purim: the yearly Jewish festival named after that lot, kept in memory of the rescue that followed
- peleshetפְּלֶשֶׁתPhilistianot studied yet
- pisgahפִּסְגָּהPisgahnot studied yet
- patsaḥפָּצַחto break out with a shout, to have joy burst out of you as sound.
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- to break something up into pieces, to chop it apart.
- petsaפֶּצַעan open wound: a cut or gash that breaks the skin and bleeds, as distinct from a bruise under skin that is still whole
- patbagפַּת־בָּגthe king's ration: the daily allotment of fine food and wine handed out from the royal table
- pe'erפְּאֵרa fine headdress: the decorative head covering worn by a serving priest, a bridegroom, or a woman in her finery, and kept on or laid aside as a public sign of joy or grief.
- pe'orahפֹּארָהboughnot studied yet
- putפּוּטPutnot studied yet
- puqפּוּקto promotenot studied yet
- pi haḥirotפִּי הַחִירֹתPi-hahirothnot studied yet
- pelegפֶּלֶגPeleg: the son of Eber and father of Reu in the family line that runs from Noah's son Shem down to Abraham, a name that sounds exactly like the Hebrew word for splitting something off.
- palahפָּלָהto set apart: God marking off one person, place, or people from all the rest and treating them differently
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- to be or to make wondrous: to stand out, or to make something stand out, as awe-inspiring and far past the ordinary
- peletiפְּלֵתִיPelethitenot studied yet
- pasaḥפָּסַחto protect and spare from harm by standing guard over someone, so that a deadly threat cannot reach them.
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- to limp, to move with an uneven, halting gait.
- pa'amonפַּעֲמֹןbell: one of the small gold bells fastened around the hem of the high priest's robe, sounding as he moved
- patsarפָּצַרto press a person hard: to keep pushing at someone who is holding back, until they give way
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- pushiness: a stubborn insistence on getting one's own way
- pereshפֶּרֶשׁthe dung of a sacrificial animal: the half-digested contents of its stomach and intestines, the waste discarded when the animal is cut open.
- petaפֶּתַעan instant: the split second in which something breaks in with no warning at all
- poti pheraפּוֹטִי פֶרַעPotipheranot studied yet
- pelaḥפֶּלַחa piece cut or split off something larger: a slab, a slice, a chunk.
- palasפָּלַסto bring something to true level, as a balance beam or a builder's level does: to grade a path smooth, or to weigh a thing out and size it up
- paninפְּנִינִיםa rare and costly substance, most likely red coral, held up as a measure of the greatest earthly worth
- pasalפָּסַלto hewnot studied yet
- peritsפָּרִיץviolentnot studied yet
- perekhפֶּרֶךְseveritynot studied yet
- paroshפַּרְעֹשׁParoshnot studied yet
- petenפֶּתֶןcobranot studied yet
- pagi'elפַּגְעִיאֵלPagielnot studied yet
- palluפַּלּוּאPallunot studied yet
- palaḥפָּלַחto cleavenot studied yet
- pelatyahפְּלַטְיָהוּPelatiahnot studied yet
- pasפַּסmost likely "palms and soles": the word that makes a tunic a long one reaching to the wrists and ankles, marking its wearer as royal or too privileged to work
- pe'orפְּעוֹרPeornot studied yet
- pa'amפָּעַםto troublenot studied yet
- piratoniפִּרְעָתוֹנִיPirathonnot studied yet
- parashפָּרַשׁto make plain: to separate a thing out from the blur around it so that it stands clear and settled.
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- to sting: to strike and pierce, as a poisonous snake does.
- patalפָּתַלto twist: to be wound out of straightness, whether two rivals locked together or a person, a word, or a response bent away from the straight
- pitronפִּתְרוֹןinterpretationnot studied yet
- patrosפַּתְרוֹסPathrosnot studied yet
- piggulפִּגּוּלfoul, rejected meat: consecrated or forbidden flesh that has become desecrated and unfit to eat or offer
- paduyפְּדוּיִםransomednot studied yet
- pedutפְּדוּתredemptionnot studied yet
- pu'ahפּוּאָהPuahnot studied yet
- pugפּוּגbe numbnot studied yet
- pukhפּוּךְcolornot studied yet
- pulפּוּלPulnot studied yet
- pushפּוּשׁto leapnot studied yet
- pitdahפִּטְדָהtopaznot studied yet
- pidפִּידdisasternot studied yet
- pokheret tsevayimפֹּכֶרֶת הַצְבָיִםPochereth-hazzebaimnot studied yet
- palagפָּלַגto dividenot studied yet
- pallatsutפַּלָּצוּתshudderingnot studied yet
- palashפָּלַשׁto wallownot studied yet
- pase'aḥפָּסֵחַPaseahnot studied yet
- pa'arפָּעַרto opennot studied yet
- perets uzzaפֶּרֶץ עֻזָּאPerez-uzzanot studied yet
- patshegenפַּתְשֶׁגֶןcopynot studied yet
- pishtahפִּשְׁתָּהflaxnot studied yet
- petaḥyahפְּתַחְיָהPethahiahnot studied yet
- pidyonפִּדְיוֹןredemptionnot studied yet
- pederפֶּדֶרsuetnot studied yet
- purפּוּרto breaknot studied yet
- peḥamפֶּחָםcharcoal: wood burned down to black fuel, used to raise a fire to high heat
- pattishפַּטִּישׁhammernot studied yet
- pikholפִּיכֹלPhicolnot studied yet
- pakhפַּךְvialnot studied yet
- peluggahפְּלֻגָּהdivisionnot studied yet
- peloniפְּלוֹנִיPelonitenot studied yet
- pelayahפְּלָאיָהPelaiahnot studied yet
- palilפָּלִילjudgenot studied yet
- peloniפְּלֹנִיso-and-so: a stand-in for a name the speaker or writer is deliberately not saying
- peninnahפְּנִנָּהPeninnahnot studied yet
- patsaפָּצַעto woundnot studied yet
- piqqadonפִּקָּדוֹןdepositnot studied yet
- peqaḥyahפְּקַחְיָהPekahiahnot studied yet
- peqaפֶּקָעִיםgourdnot studied yet
- parbarפַּרְוָרcolonnadenot studied yet
- pirdahפִּרְדָּהfemale mulenot studied yet
- pardesפַּרְדֵּסparknot studied yet
- parurפָּרוּרpotnot studied yet
- perazahפְּרָזָהvillagenot studied yet
- peraziפְּרָזִיvillagernot studied yet
- paramפָּרַםto tearnot studied yet
- partamפַּרְתְּמִיםnoblenot studied yet
- parurפָּארוּרpalenot studied yet
- pegaפֶּגַעchancenot studied yet
- pagarפָּגַרto faintnot studied yet
- padonפָּדוֹןPadonnot studied yet
- potipharפּוֹטִיפַרPotipharnot studied yet
- polפּוֹלbeannot studied yet
- punonפּוּנֹןPunonnot studied yet
- puqפּוּקto reelnot studied yet
- purahפּוּרָהwinepressnot studied yet
- pazazפָּזַזbe agilenot studied yet
- paḥazפָּחַזbe recklessnot studied yet
- pi-vesetפִּי־בֶסֶתPi-besethnot studied yet
- pi'aḥפִּיחַsootnot studied yet
- pinonפִּינֹןPinonnot studied yet
- piphiyyahפִּיפִיָּהtoothnot studied yet
- pitonפִּיתוֹןPithonnot studied yet
- piliפִּלְאִיincomprehensiblenot studied yet
- peletפֶּלֶטPeletnot studied yet
- paltiפַּלְטִיPaltinot studied yet