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title: פָּאָה — cleave in pieces · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּאָה (6284), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cleave in pieces. BDB 1906: vb. cleave in pieces Qal. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּאָה

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«פָּאָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cleave in pieces** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6284 · **BDB:** פָּאָה

### Glosses

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### Meaning (OSHB)

cleave in pieces [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6284/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. cleave in pieces Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6284/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. perhaps (si vera l.) cleave in pieces (Arabic (فأى, فأو) فَاأَ cleave, split (head, bowl, etc.); Sab. פעי DHMZMG xxx (1876), 701 f.);— Impf. 1 s. sf. אַפְאֵיהֶם Dt 32:26 I \[י׳\] will cleave them in pieces (poss. point אֶפ׳, i.e. Qal; on other views v. Dr; read perhaps אֲפִיצֵם 𝔊 Gr).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּאָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6284/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 32:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.26/)

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אָמַ֖רְתִּי אַפְאֵיהֶ֑ם אַשְׁבִּ֥יתָה מֵאֱנ֖וֹשׁ זִכְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.said I will.cut.them.in.pieces I.will.make.cease from humankind remembrance their

*JPS 1917:* I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;

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