STRONGS NUMBER H6323


Word Summary
pun: be distracted
Original Word: פוּן
Transliteration: pun
Phonetic Spelling: (poon)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: be distracted
Meaning: be distracted
Strong's Concordance
be distracted

A primitive root meaning to turn, i.e. Be perplexed -- be distracted.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6323. pun

אָפ֑וּנָהPsalm 88:16 (ἄρ. λεγ DlPr 135 f. compare Assyrian appuna(ma) adv. = ma°diš, very, very much, but dubious; Thes MV form from √ פון‎ & compare Arabic diminuit, mente diminuit (Frey), hence be confused, helpless, compare ᵐ5ἐξηπθρήθην ᵑ9contur-batus sum; others emend אָפוּגָה‎ from מּוּג‎ q. v. A verb however is not needed for parallelism). **Arabic in fact = milk (camel, etc.) dry, empty; = empty-headed man; this does not support be confused, helpless (GFM, privately).

[מּוּן‎] verb (?); only אָפוּנָהPsalm 88:16; read probably אֶמּוֺגָה‎, see אָפוּנָה פוג,‎.

מּוֺנֶה2 Chronicles 25:23 see מּוּנִי מִּנָּה,‎ see מּוּאָה‎. above