Strong's #6346: pechah (pronounced peh-khaw')

of foreign origin; a prefect (of a city or small district):--captain, deputy, governor.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pechâh

1) governor

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: of foreign origin

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

1 Kings 10:15: "and of the traffic of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country."
1 Kings 20:24: "Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:"
2 Kings 18:24: "the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust"
2 Chronicles 9:14: "and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought"
Ezra 8:36: "commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered"
Nehemiah 2:7: "the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that"
Nehemiah 2:9: "Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's"
Nehemiah 3:7: "of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river."
Nehemiah 5:14: "from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth"
Nehemiah 5:14: "years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor."
Nehemiah 5:15: "But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken"
Nehemiah 5:18: "this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy"
Nehemiah 12:26: "of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe."
Esther 3:12: "unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province,"
Esther 8:9: "the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India"
Esther 9:3: "the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king,"
Isaiah 36:9: "the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust"
Jeremiah 51:23: "the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers."
Jeremiah 51:28: "the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land"
Jeremiah 51:57: "And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual"
Ezekiel 23:6: "Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen"
Ezekiel 23:12: "upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously,"
Ezekiel 23:23: "the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords"
Haggai 1:1: "Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son"
Haggai 1:14: "of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son"
Haggai 2:2: "Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son"
Haggai 2:21: "Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake"
Malachi 1:8: "evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person?"