Quick Definition
to cleave
Strong's Definition
to puff, i.e. blow away
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: scatter into corners.
TWOT Reference: 1725
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) to cleave in pieces, break into pieces, shatter
1a) (Hiphil) to cleave in pieces, dash to pieces
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּאָה (pa.ah) — to cleave. 1) to cleave in pieces, break into pieces, shatter 1a) (Hiphil) to cleave in pieces, dash to pieces
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · פֵּאָה
Non-Exist | verb hif
to destroy, to wipe out, to strike down exact meaning unsure; probably: = causative action by which humans take the life of other humans in a violent way
1 DEU 32:26 NJB NJPS REB GNT | RSV NIV NRSV CEV אֲפִיצֵם = פוץ "to scatter"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פָּאָה] vb. perh. cleave in pieces;—Hiph. Dt 32:26 ref