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Nehemiah 5:15

“But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

פֶּחָהpechâh · peh-khaw'
H6346 · Hebrew

Definition: a prefect (of a city or small district)
Derivation: of foreign origin;
KJV renderings: captain, deputy, governor.
Grammar: וְ — conjunction
הַ — particle (definite article)
פַּחוֹת֩ — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
Code HC/Td/Ncmpa
Usage: Occurs 28 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Kings 10:15 1 Kings 20:24 2 Kings 18:24 2 Chronicles 9:14 Ezra 8:36

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read פֶּחָה here.

Verse 14 Verse 16

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.