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pēs: In the King James Version the word (singular and plural) represents a large number of different Hebrew words, many of which have more or less the same significance, e.g. piece of meat or flesh (; ; ); of bread or cake (; ; ); of ground or land (); of wall (, ff); of an ear (); of cloth or garment (); of millstone (). It is used frequently in paraphrastic renderings of various Hebrew verbs: “break,†“tear,†“cut,†etc., in pieces (, etc.).
In the New Testament “piece†renders ἐπιÌβλημα, epıÌbleÌ„ma, “piece†or “patch of cloth†(; ; ). It is also found in paraphrastic renderings - broken in pieces (), pulled in pieces ().