peora · boughs, branches

What it means

peora (פְּאֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “boughs, branches”.

Boughs, the leafy branches of a tree.

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. Branches covered with leaves.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• foliage ×6
• boughs ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×6

• Isaiah 10:33

  Look, the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot, lops the boughs with terror; and the high of stature are hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.

• Ezekiel 17:6

  And it sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in stature, so that its branches turned toward it, and its roots were under it; and it became a vine, and produced shoots and sent out foliage.

• Ezekiel 31:5

  Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs multiplied, and its foliage grew long from many waters as it spread out.

• Ezekiel 31:6

  In its boughs all the birds of the heavens nested, and under its foliage all the animals of the field gave birth, and in its shade all the many nations lived.

• Ezekiel 31:8

  The cedars did not eclipse it in the garden of Elohim; the cypresses did not resemble its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its foliage; no tree in the garden of Elohim resembled it in its beauty.

• Ezekiel 31:12

  And strangers cut it down, the fearsome ones of the nations, and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell, and its foliage was broken in all the watercourses of the earth; and all the peoples of the earth came down from its shade and left it.

• Ezekiel 31:13

  Upon its fall all the birds of the heavens dwell, and on its foliage are all the animals of the field,