# H6621 פֶּתַע

פֶּתַע (pethaʻ), Strong’s H6621: a wink, i.e. moment(used only (with or without preposition) adverbially, quickly or unexpectedly KJV: at an instant, suddenly, [idiom] very.. Occurs 7 times.

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*pethaʻ* — a wink, i.e. moment(used only (with or without preposition) adverbially, quickly or unexpectedly

KJV: at an instant, suddenly, [idiom] very.

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- פֶּתַע subst. suddenness (√ unknown)

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 6:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/6?v=9) — “‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in…
- [Numbers 35:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=22) — “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
- [Isaiah 29:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=5) — But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows…
- [Isaiah 30:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=13) — therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes…
- [Habakkuk 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/2?v=7) — Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
- [Proverbs 6:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/6?v=15) — Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
- [Proverbs 29:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/29?v=1) — He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.