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Bough

פֹּארָהStrong’s H6288

peorah (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.”
Isaiah 10:33 KJV
Meaning
  1. Bough, branch, shoot
  2. 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.

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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.