Feminine of poh; properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. Direction, region, extremity -- corner, end, quarter, side.
see HEBREW poh
H6285. peah
מֵּאָה86 noun feminine corner, side (part cut off, 'Abschnitt,' according to Schröter in MeiArchiv. i. 461 BaZMG xii (1887), 615 BuhlLex, but perhaps biliteral, NöM. 485 Sta§ 185, and not from √ פאה; compare Arabic company, etc. (Nöl. e.); Assyrian pâtu, side, edge, border, see especially MeissnSuppl. 74; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic מָּאתָא, ); — absolute ׳פ Jeremiah 9:25 4t.; construct מְּאַת Amos 3:12 77t.; plural absolute מֵּאֹת Exodus 25:26; 37:23; dual construct מַּאֲַתֵי Numbers 24:17 (but read probably מְּאַת as "" Jeremiah 48:45); —
1 corner of divan Amos 3:12; table Exodus 25:26; 37:23; field Leviticus 19:9; 23:22 (H); land (probably) לְפֵאָה וַתַּחְלְקֵם Nehemiah 9:22, i.e. into every corner; ׳פ ראֹשְׁכֶם Leviticus 19:27 (i.e. your temples), ׳פ זְקָנֶ֑ךָ 19:27; compare 21:5 (all H); קְצוּצֵי פֵאָה those clipped on the temples Jeremiah 9:25; 25:23; 49:32 (epithet of Arabian tribes, Herod.iii, 8 WMMAs.u.Eur.140 f. WeSkizzen iii. 119; Heid. 2, 198); temples of Moab (under figure of man) Numbers 24:17 (JE) Jeremiah 48:45.
2 side:
a. usually of Ezekiel's temple, the tabernacle, the holy city and the land, or its subdivisions (only Ezekiel 41-48 [47 t.] and P [26 t.]): in plur. קָדִ֫ימ(הׅ מְּאַת East side Ezekiel 47:18 17t. Ezekiel, = פ ׳קֵדְמָה Exodus 27:13 3t. P and Ezekiel 45:7 (see Co Toy); פ ׳צָפ֫וֺנ(ה) North side 47:15; Exodus 26:20 9t.; פ נ֫גְבָּה) ׳ֶ נֶגֶב South side Ezekiel 47:19 (twice in verse); Exodus 27:9 8t.; פ ׳(יָ֫מָּה) יָם West side Ezekiel 45:7; Exodus 27:12 21t. + פ ׳הַיָּם דֶּרֶךְֿ Ezekiel 41:12 (also ׳פ הַיָּם קָדִים 48:1); absolute only הָאֶחָת לַמֵּאָה Exodus 27:9.
b. מָּנָיו מְּאַת Leviticus 13:41 side (border) of his face (forehead and temples; P).
פאם see פימה