פֶּחָה
pe.chah
“governor”
Definition
a prefect (of a city or small district)
of foreign origin;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
פֶּחָה appears 27 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates, who proceeded to assist the people and the house of God.
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.
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