פֶּתַעpethaʻ/peh'-thah/
HebrewH66217 occurrences (KJV)
a wink, i.e. moment(used only (with or without preposition) adverbially, quickly or unexpectedly
KJV renders it: at an instant, suddenly, [idiom] very.
Where it appears
- Num 6:9“‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
- Num 35:22“‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
- Prov 6:15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
- Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
- Isa 29:5But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
- Isa 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
- Hab 2:7Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.