H6621: פֶּתַע
pethaʻ · pronounced peh'-thah · “suddenness”
Definition
a wink, i.e. moment(used only (with or without preposition) adverbially, quickly or unexpectedly
KJV translates it as: at an instant, suddenly, [idiom] very.
Word origin: from an unused root meaning to open (the eyes); (compare H6597 (פִּתְאוֹם))
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6621 is translated
- an instant ×3
- suddenly ×2
- suddenness ×2
Bible verses with H6621 (pethaʻ)
Pethaʻ appears in 7 verses.
- Numbers 6:9
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
- Numbers 35:22
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
- Proverbs 6:15
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
- Proverbs 29:1
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Isaiah 29:5
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
- Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Habakkuk 2:7
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?