Strong’s H6621 · Hebrew
פֶּתַע
pethaʻ · peh'-thah
Origin from an unused root meaning to open (the eyes); (compare פִּתְאוֹם (H6597))
Meaning a wink, i.e. moment(used only (with or without preposition) adverbially, quickly or unexpectedly
In the King James Version at an instant, suddenly, [idiom] very.
In 7 verses of the King James Version
- Numbers 6:9And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
- Numbers 35:22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
- Proverbs 6:15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
- Proverbs 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Isaiah 29:5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
- Isaiah 30:13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Habakkuk 2:7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.