Lexical Summary pun: be distracted Original Word: פוּןTransliteration: 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 אָפ֑וּנָה Psalm 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 ᵐ5 ἐξηπθρήθην ᵑ9 contur-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 אָפוּנָה Psalm 88:16; read probably אֶמּוֺגָה, see אָפוּנָה פוג,. מּוֺנֶה2 Chronicles 25:23 see מּוּנִי מִּנָּה, see מּוּאָה. above |