pecha · governor

What it means

pecha (פֶּחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “governor”.

One who rules a province or district in the name of the king. A frequent word in the books of the Persian period.

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. One who rules a province for the king.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• governors ×16
• governor ×12

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×8
• Esther×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×3
• Haggai×4
• Malachi×1

• 1 Kings 10:15

  besides that from the men who traveled the land and from the trade of the traders, and from all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land.

• 1 Kings 20:24

  And do this thing: remove the kings, each from his place, and put governors in their place.

• 2 Kings 18:24

  How then can you turn back the face of one governor, of the least of the servants of my master, while you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

• 2 Chronicles 9:14

  besides what the men who traveled about and the merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.

• Ezra 8:36

  And they delivered the laws of the king to the satraps of the king and the governors of the other side of the river, and they supported the people and the house of Elohim.

• Nehemiah 2:7

  And I said to the king, “If to the king it seems good, let letters be given to me for the governors of the other side of the river, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah,

• Nehemiah 2:9

  And I came to the governors of the other side of the river and gave them the letters of the king. And the king had sent with me commanders of troops and horsemen.

• Nehemiah 3:7

  And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired, of the throne of the governor of the other side of the river.

• Nehemiah 5:14

  Also, from the day that I was commanded to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brothers did not eat the bread of the governor.

• Nehemiah 5:15

  But the former governors who were before me burdened the people and took from them for bread and wine, besides, forty shekels of silver; even their young men dominated the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim.

• Nehemiah 5:18

  And what was prepared for one day was one ox, six choice sheep, and birds were prepared for me; and once every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet with this I did not seek the bread of the governor, because the servitude was heavy on this people.

• Nehemiah 12:26

  These were in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

• Esther 3:12

  And the king’s scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it, and it was written according to all that Haman commanded, to the king’s satraps and to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, to each province according to its script and each people according to its language; in the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

• Esther 8:9

  And the king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day of it; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces that are from India to Cush, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to each province according to its script and each people according to its language, and to the Jews according to their script and according to their language.

• Esther 9:3

  And all the officials of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and those who did the king’s work, were supporting the Jews, for the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them.

• Isaiah 36:9

  How then can you turn back the face of one governor, of the least of the servants of my master, while you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

• Jeremiah 51:23

  and I will shatter with you shepherd and his flock; and I will shatter with you farmer and his team; and I will shatter with you governors and prefects.

• Jeremiah 51:28

  Consecrate nations against her, the kings of Media, her governors and all her prefects, and all the land of his dominion.

• Jeremiah 51:57

  And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her prefects and her mighty men, and they will sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Ezekiel 23:6

  clothed in blue, governors and prefects, desirable young men all of them, horsemen riding horses.

• Ezekiel 23:12

  With the sons of Assyria she was infatuated, governors and prefects, near ones, clothed to perfection, horsemen riding horses, desirable young men all of them.

• Ezekiel 23:23

  the sons of Babylon and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the sons of Assyria with them, desirable young men, governors and prefects all of them, officers and renowned men, riding horses, all of them.

• Haggai 1:1

  In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of YHWH came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

• Haggai 1:14

  And YHWH stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work on the house of YHWH Tsevaot, their Elohim,

• Haggai 2:2

  “Speak, please, to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

• Haggai 2:21

  “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

• Malachi 1:8

  And when you offer a blind animal to sacrifice, there is no evil; and when you offer the lame and the sick, there is no evil. Present it, then, to your governor: will he accept you, or lift up your face? says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 1 more times.