H6464 H6464
Pau/Pai, a city in Edom, royal residence of King Hadar (Genesis 36:39; 1 Chronicles 1:50)
Pau (also spelled Pai) was a city in Edom that served as the royal residence of King Hadar. The name appears with spelling variation between Genesis (Pau) and Chronicles (Pai), reflecting textual traditions. The Septuagint renders it as Phogor (Genesis) and Phaona (Chronicles). Its precise location is unknown, but it was significant enough to be named as a royal capital.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A place name designating an Edomite royal city, appearing with variant spellings across biblical books. The multilingual glosses preserve both forms: Spanish 'Pau/Pai,' French 'Pau.' This toponymic variation is common in biblical genealogies and king lists, where oral traditions and textual transmission produced legitimate variant forms of the same place name. 2×
AR["فاعي", "فاعُو"]·ben["পাউ", "পায়ি"]·DE["[פעי]", "war-Pau"]·EN["Pa'i", "Pau"]·FR["Pau", "[פעי]"]·heb["פעו", "פעי"]·HI["पाई", "पाऊ"]·ID["Pau"]·IT["Pau", "[פעי]"]·jav["Pai", "Pau"]·KO["바우라", "바이"]·PT["Pa'i", "Pa'u"]·RU["Паи", "Пау"]·ES["Pai", "Pau"]·SW["Pau", "mji"]·TR["Pai", "Pau"]·urd["پاعو", "پاعی"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† פָּ֑עוּ, פָּ֑עִי n.pr.loc. in Edom, פָּ֑עוּ Gn 36:39 = פָּ֑עִי 1 Ch 1:50; Φογωρ, 𝔊L Ch Φαουα.