pe · mouth

What it means

pe (פֶּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mouth”.

Also what someone says or commands ("by the mouth of" = by the word of); the edge of a sword; "according to".

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. The part of the face with which one speaks, eats and kisses.
2. Literally "the mouth": what someone says or decrees.
3. Literally "the mouth of the sword": the part that cuts.
4. Literally "mouth": the hole or rim of something, like a well or sack.
5. Literally "by the mouth of": just as something directs; or a portion.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Mouth. BDB adds that, by extension, it means what is said or commanded, the edge of something, and with a preposition, “according to”.

• The mouth Genesis 4:11Exodus 4:11
• Command: “according to the command of YHWH” Numbers 9:18Genesis 45:21
• The edge of the sword Joshua 6:21Genesis 34:26
• “Mouth to mouth”: to speak directly Numbers 12:8

How we translate it

“Mouth” 342 times, “command” 51, “edge” 35, “according to” 24. עַל־פִּי, literally “at the mouth of”, is translated “according to the command of”; לְפִי־חֶרֶב, “with the edge of the sword”. “Mouth to mouth” (Numbers 12:8) is kept literally.

How it is translated

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

• mouth ×342
• command ×51
• edge ×35
• according to ×24
• opening ×6
• word ×5
• mouths ×4
• one end ×3
• other ×3
• collar ×2
• others ×23

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×21
• Exodus×23
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×49
• Deuteronomy×23
• Joshua×27
• Judges×14
• 1 Samuel×13
• 2 Samuel×8
• 1 Kings×13
• 2 Kings×10
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×10
• Ezra×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Job×36
• Psalms×67
• Proverbs×56
• Ecclesiastes×7
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×28
• Jeremiah×28
• Lamentations×5
• Ezekiel×17
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×3
• Joel×1
• Amos×2
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×5
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×6
• Malachi×3

• Genesis 4:11

  And now, cursed are you away from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

• Genesis 8:11

  And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.

• Genesis 24:57

  They said, “Let us call the girl and ask her.”

• Genesis 25:28

  Isaac loved Esau, because game was to his taste, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 29:2

  He looked, and look, a well in the field, and look, there three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.

• Genesis 29:3

  When all the flocks were gathered there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put back the stone on the mouth of the well in its place.

• Genesis 29:8

  They said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Genesis 34:26

  Hamor and Shechem his son they killed with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out.

• Genesis 41:40

  You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your command; only in the throne will I be greater than you.”

• Genesis 42:27

  One of them opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place, and he saw his silver, and look, it was in the mouth of his bag.

• Genesis 43:7

  They said, “The man asked closely about us and about our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?’ And we told him according to these words. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring down your brother’?”

• Genesis 43:12

  Take double the silver in your hand, and the silver that was returned in the mouth of your bags carry back in your hand; perhaps it was a mistake.

• Genesis 43:21

  And when we came to the lodging place and opened our bags, look, each man’s silver was in the mouth of his bag, our silver in its full weight; so we have brought it back in our hand.

• Genesis 44:1

  He commanded the one over his house, saying, “Fill the bags of the men with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s silver in the mouth of his bag.

• Genesis 44:2

  And my cup, the silver cup, put in the mouth of the bag of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did according to the word of Joseph that he had spoken.

• Genesis 44:8

  Look, the silver that we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal from the house of your lord silver or gold?

• Genesis 45:12

  And look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that is speaking to you.

• Genesis 45:21

  The sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them carts according to the command of Pharaoh, and he gave them provisions for the journey.

• Genesis 47:12

  Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number of their little ones.

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to YHWH, “Please, Adonai, I have never been a man of words, either in the past or before that or since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.”

• Exodus 4:11

  YHWH said to him, “Who gave a mouth to a human being? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, YHWH?

• Exodus 4:12

  So now, go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you shall speak.”

• Exodus 4:15

  You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.

• Exodus 4:16

  He shall speak for you to the people; and it will be that he will be a mouth for you, and you will be to him as Elohim.

• Exodus 12:4

  If the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house shall take one according to the number of persons; you shall make your count for the lamb each according to what he eats.

• Exodus 13:9

  It shall be for you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, so that the instruction of YHWH may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand YHWH brought you out of Egypt.

• Exodus 16:16

  This is the thing that YHWH has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one according to what he can eat, an omer per head, according to the number of your persons; each one for those in his tent you shall take.’ ”

• Exodus 16:18

  But when they measured it with the omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.

• Exodus 16:21

  They gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat; and when the sun grew hot, it melted.

• Exodus 17:1

  All the community of the sons of Israel set out from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the command of YHWH, and camped at Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

• Exodus 17:13

  And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

• Exodus 23:13

  In all that I have said to you, take care. Do not mention the name of other gods; let it not be heard on your lips.

• Exodus 28:32

  There shall be an opening for its head in its middle, with a binding around its opening, the work of a weaver; like the opening of a coat of mail it shall be for it, so that it will not tear.

• Exodus 34:27

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Write for yourself these words, for according to these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

• Exodus 38:21

  These are the accounts of the dwelling, the dwelling of the testimony, which were recorded by order of Moses, the service of the Levites, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

• Exodus 39:23

  And the opening of the robe was in its middle, like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding for its opening all around, so that it would not be torn.

• Leviticus 24:12

  And they put him in custody, to make the matter clear to them by the mouth of YHWH.

• Leviticus 25:16

  The more the years, the more you shall increase its price, and the fewer the years, the more you shall decrease its price; for it is a number of harvests that he is selling to you.

• Leviticus 25:51

  If many years still remain, according to them he shall pay back the price of his redemption from the silver he was bought for.

And 458 more times.