פֹּארָה
pe.o.rah
bough
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word 'pe.o.rah' (H6288A) refers to a 'bough', implying a branch or a length of wood that grows out from a tree. It is used in 6 instances in the Bible. This word suggests a range of usage that may encompass objects as varied as a stick, a branch, or even a length of wood used for construction. Its relatively low frequency, with 6 occurrences, implies a specific or nuanced application rather than a general term. Given its meaning and usage, this word likely holds significance in biblical contexts that involve descriptions of landscapes, furniture, or objects made or utilized from wood.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
6 total occurrences across the text
It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.
Ezekiel 31:5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.
Ezekiel 31:6All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow.
Ezekiel 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its boughs. The pine trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
Ezekiel 31:12Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Ezekiel 31:13All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches;