Bough
פֹּארָהStrong’s H6288peorah (pe-o-rah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “branches its”, “bough” and “boughs”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.”
Meaning
- Bough, branch, shoot
- Bough, branch, shoot
How it's translated
- branches its 4
- bough 1
- boughs 1
- like branches its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 17:6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
- Ezekiel 31:5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
- Ezekiel 31:6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
- Ezekiel 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
- Ezekiel 31:12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
- Ezekiel 31:13Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
Hebrew dictionary
פֹּארָה peorah · bough
bough, branch, shoot Also means: pu.rah (פּוּרָה "bough" H6288B)
פּוּרָה purah · bough
bough, branch, shoot Another spelling of pe.o.rah (פֹּארָה "bough" H6288A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bough” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOUGH, noun
bou. The branch of a tree; applied to a branch of size, not to a small shoot.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.