Definition
from H6284; the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
Traditional renderings: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), × eat, edge, end, entry, file, hole, × in, mind, mouth, part, portion, × (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, × spoken, talk, tenor, × to, two-edged, wish, word.
Traditional renderings: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), × eat, edge, end, entry, file, hole, × in, mind, mouth, part, portion, × (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, × spoken, talk, tenor, × to, two-edged, wish, word.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders פֶּה:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
497 total
- Lamentations 1:18פִ֣יהוּ · against His commandThe LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 2:16פִּיהֶם֙ · their mouthsAll your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
- Lamentations 3:29פִּ֔יהוּ · his faceLet him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
- Lamentations 3:38מִפִּ֤י · from the mouthDo not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
- Lamentations 3:46פִּיהֶ֖ם · their mouthsAll our enemies open their mouths against us.
- Ezekiel 2:8פִ֔יךָ · your mouthAnd you, son of man, listen to what I tell you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
- Ezekiel 3:2פִּ֑י · my mouthSo I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.
- Ezekiel 3:3בְּפִ֖י · in my mouth“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
- Ezekiel 3:17מִפִּי֙ · My mouth“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
- Ezekiel 3:27פִּ֔יךָ · your mouthBut when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 4:14בְּפִ֖י · my mouth“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
- Ezekiel 16:56בְּפִ֑יךְDid you not treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn in the day of your pride,
- Ezekiel 16:63פֶּ֔ה · your mouth…so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 21:22פֶּה֙In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
- Ezekiel 24:27פִּ֙יךָ֙ · your mouthOn that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 29:21פֶּ֖ה · your mouthIn that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 33:7מִפִּי֙ · My mouthAs for you, O son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word from My mouth and give them the warning from Me.
- Ezekiel 33:22פִּ֔י · my mouth; פִּ֔י · So my mouthNow the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.
- Ezekiel 33:31בְּפִיהֶם֙ · with their mouthsSo My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 34:10מִפִּיהֶ֔ם · from their mouthsThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’
- Ezekiel 35:13בְּפִיכֶ֔ם · with your mouthYou boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
- Daniel 10:3פִּ֖י · my mouthI ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.
- Daniel 10:16פִּ֗י · my mouthAnd suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.
- Hosea 2:17מִפִּ֑יהָ · from her lipsFor I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.
- Hosea 6:5פִ֑י · of My mouthTherefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
- Hosea 10:12לְפִי־Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- Joel 1:5מִפִּיכֶֽם׃ · from your mouthWake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Amos 3:12מִפִּ֧י · from the mouthThis is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
- Amos 6:5פִּ֣יYou improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
- Obadiah 1:12פִּ֖יךָBut you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
- Micah 3:5פִּיהֶ֔ם · their mouthsThis is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
- Micah 4:4פִ֛י · the mouthAnd each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
- Micah 6:12בְּפִיהֶֽם׃ · in their mouthsFor the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- Micah 7:5פִֽיךָ׃ · of your mouthDo not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
- Micah 7:16פֶּ֔ה · their mouthsNations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
- Nahum 3:12פִּ֥י · the mouthAll your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
- Zephaniah 3:13בְּפִיהֶ֖ם · in their mouthsThe remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
- Zechariah 1:21כְּפִי־ · so that“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
- Zechariah 5:8פִּֽיהָ׃ס · its opening“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.
- Zechariah 8:9מִפִּי֙This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.
- Zechariah 9:7מִפִּ֗יו · from their mouthsI will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
- Zechariah 13:8פִּֽי־ · two-thirdsAnd in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.
- Zechariah 14:12בְּפִיהֶֽם׃ · in their mouthsAnd this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
- Malachi 2:6בְּפִ֔יהוּ · in his mouthTrue instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
- Malachi 2:7מִפִּ֑יהוּ · from his mouthFor the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 2:9כְּפִ֗י · because“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”