pea · corner, side, edge

What it means

pea (פֵּאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “corner, side, edge”.

Side, corner, edge (of a field, of a beard, of a land).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Each of the sides of something, named for its direction, like the north side.
2. The edge or corner of something: of a field, a piece of furniture or the head.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Side, edge, corner: the outer part of something, whether an object, a field, the head or the beard, or a territory. BDB: direction, region, extremity; from there corner, edge, side; also the temple of the head.

• The side of the dwelling or of a border Exodus 26:18Numbers 35:5
• The corners of an object Exodus 25:26
• “You shall not finish reaping the edge of your field” Leviticus 19:9Leviticus 23:22
• The edge of the head and of the beard Leviticus 19:27Jeremiah 9:26
• “Shall shatter the temples of Moab” Numbers 24:17

Historical and cultural background

Leviticus 19:9 and 23:22 command not reaping the edge of the field, leaving it “for the poor and for the resident alien”. Leviticus 19:27 forbids rounding off “the edge of your head”.

How we translate it

“Side” 69 times in the measurements of the dwelling, of the borders and of Ezekiel's temple; “edge” 5 in the laws of the field and of the hair (Leviticus 19:9, 27); “temples” 4 and “temple” 1 when it is the head (“all who are clipped at the temples”, Jeremiah 9:26); “corners” 2.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• side ×69
• edge ×5
• temples ×4
• corners ×2
• south ×2
• corner ×1
• front ×1
• regions ×1
• temple ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×15
• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×6
• Joshua×6
• Nehemiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×47
• Amos×1

• Exodus 25:26

  You shall make for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four feet.

• Exodus 26:18

  You shall make the boards for the dwelling: twenty boards for the southern side, toward the south.

• Exodus 26:20

  And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, twenty boards,

• Exodus 27:9

  You shall make the courtyard of the dwelling. For the southern side, toward the south, the courtyard shall have hangings of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for the one side,

• Exodus 27:11

  And likewise for the north side, in length, hangings a hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver.

• Exodus 27:12

  For the width of the courtyard on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their bases ten.

• Exodus 27:13

  The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits.

• Exodus 36:23

  And he made the boards for the dwelling: twenty boards for the south side,

• Exodus 36:25

  And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, he made twenty boards,

• Exodus 37:13

  And he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs.

• Exodus 38:9

  And he made the courtyard: for the south side, the hangings of the courtyard were of twisted fine linen, a hundred cubits,

• Exodus 38:11

  And for the north side, a hundred cubits; their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Exodus 38:12

  And for the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten and their bases ten; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Exodus 38:13

  And for the east side, toward the sunrise, fifty cubits.

• Leviticus 13:41

  And if his head loses its hair from the front of his face, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.

• Leviticus 19:9

  And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather.

• Leviticus 19:27

  You shall not round off the edge of your head, and you shall not destroy the edge of your beard.

• Leviticus 21:5

  They shall not make bald spots on their head, and the edge of their beard they shall not shave off, and in their flesh they shall not make cuts.

• Leviticus 23:22

  And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather; for the poor and for the resident alien you shall leave them. I am YHWH your Elohim.”

• Numbers 24:17

  I see him, but not now; I gaze on him, but not near. A star shall march forth from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall shatter the temples of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth.

• Numbers 34:3

  Your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.

• Numbers 35:5

  And you shall measure outside the city the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle; this shall be for them the pasturelands of the cities.

• Joshua 15:5

  And the east border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. And the border on the north side ran from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;

• Joshua 18:12

  And their border on the north side was from the Jordan, and the border went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and its ends were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

• Joshua 18:14

  And the border bent and turned on the west side southward from the hill that lies over against Beth-horon on the south, and its ends were at Kiriath-baal (that is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.

• Joshua 18:15

  And the south side was from the end of Kiriath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;

• Joshua 18:20

  And the Jordan bordered it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by its borders all around, according to their families.

• Nehemiah 9:22

  And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and distributed them by regions; and they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all who are clipped at the temples, who live in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Jeremiah 25:23

  and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who are shaved at the temples;

• Jeremiah 48:45

  In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stood without strength; for fire went out from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and it consumed the temple of Moab and the crown of the sons of tumult.

• Jeremiah 49:32

  And their camels will become plunder, and the multitude of their livestock spoil; and I will scatter them to every wind, those clipped at the temples; and from all its sides I will bring their calamity, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 41:12

  And the building that was in front of the separate area, on the side toward the sea, seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building five cubits wide all around, and its length ninety cubits.

• Ezekiel 45:7

  And to the chief shall belong land on one side and on the other of the holy contribution and of the possession of the city, facing the holy contribution and facing the possession of the city, from the side of the sea toward the sea and from the side of the east toward the east, and its length corresponding to one of the portions, from the border of the sea to the border of the east.

• Ezekiel 47:15

  And this shall be the border of the land: on the side of the north, from the great sea by the way of Hethlon, as one comes to Zedad,

• Ezekiel 47:17

  And the border shall be from the sea to Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

• Ezekiel 47:18

  And the east side, from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the border to the eastern sea you shall measure. And this is the east side.

• Ezekiel 47:19

  And the south side toward the south: from Tamar to the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, to the Wadi, to the great sea. And this is the south side toward the south.

• Ezekiel 47:20

  And the side of the sea: the great sea, from the border to a point opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the side of the sea.

• Ezekiel 48:1

  “And these are the names of the tribes: from the end of the north, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, to the north, beside Hamath, and they shall be his, the side of the east and the sea: Dan, one.

And 46 more times.