Lexical Definition

‎פֵּאָה‎ pêʼâh (pay-aw') side ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎פֹּה‎

corner, end, quarter, side.

• properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity

1) corner, edge, side, quarter, extremity
1a) corner
1b) side

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎פֵּאָה‎₈₆ noun feminine corner, side (part cut off, 'Abschnitt,' according to Schröter in Mei^{Archiv. i. 461} Ba^{ZMG xii (1887), 615} Buhl^Lex, but perhaps biliteral, Nö^{M. 485} Sta^{§ 185, and not} from √ ‎פאה‎; compare Arabic company, etc. (Nö^{l. e}.); Assyrian pâtu, side, edge, border, see especially Meissn^{Suppl. 74}; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic ‎פָּאתָא‎, ); — absolute ‎׳‎‎פ‎ Jer 9:25* + 4 t.; construct ‎פְּאַת‎ Amos 3:12 + 77 t.; plural absolute ‎פֵּאֹת‎ Exod 25:26; Exod 37:23 dual construct ‎פַּאֲַתֵי‎ Num 24:17 (but read probably ‎פְּאַת‎ as || Jer 48:45); —

1. corner of divan Amos 3:12 table Exod 25:26; Exod 37:23 field Lev 19:9; Lev 23:22 (H); land (probably) ‎וַתַּחְלְקֵם לְפֵאָה‎ Neh 9:22, i.e. into every corner; ‎ראֹשְׁכֶם‎ ‎׳‎‎פ‎ Lev 19:27 (i.e. your temples), ‎זְקָנֶ֑ךָ‎ ‎׳‎‎פ‎ vLev 19:27 compare Lev 21:5 (all H); ‎פֵאָה קְצוּצֵי‎ those clipped on the temples Jer 9:25*; Jer 25:23; Jer 49:32 (epithet of Arabian tribes, Herod.^{iii, 8} WMM^{As.u.Eur.140 f.} We^{Skizzen iii. 119}; Heid. 2, 198); temples of Moab (under figure of man) Num 24:17 (JE) Jer 48:45.

2. side:
a. usually of Ezekiel's temple, the tabernacle, the holy city and the land, or its subdivisions (only Ezek 41-48 [47 t.] and P [26 t.]): in plur. ‎פְּאַת קָדִ֫ימ(הׅ‎ East side Ezek 47:18 + 17 t. Ezekiel, = ‎׳‎‎קֵדְמָה פ‎ Exod 27:13 + 3 t. P and Ezek 45:7 (see Co Toy); ‎׳‎‎צָפ֫וֺנ(ה) פ‎ North side Ezek 47:15; Exod 26:20 + 9 t.; ‎נֶגֶב‎ ‎׳‎‎ֶ נ֫גְבָּה) פ‎ South side Ezek 47:19 (twice in verse); Exod 27:9 + 8 t.; ‎יָם‎ ‎׳‎‎(יָ֫מָּה) פ‎ West side Ezek 45:7; Exod 27:12 + 21 t. + ‎דֶּרֶךְֿ‎ ‎׳‎‎הַיָּם פ‎ Ezek 41:12 (also ‎קָדִים הַיָּם‎ ‎׳‎‎פ‎ Ezek 48:1); absolute only ‎לַפֵּאָה הָאֶחָת‎ Exod 27:9.
b. ‎פְּאַת פָּנָיו‎ Lev 13:41 side (border) of his face (forehead and temples; P).

‎פאם‎ see ‎פימה‎

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