פְּנַחְיָא, (supposed to be fr. Pers. pânah) protection, safeguard. B. Kam. 103ᵃ מידע … ופ׳ הוא דקבעינא (Ms. M. פנחייה) you know very well that I bought the field for myself, and that (in buying it in behalf of a third, influential person) I had in view only protection (against legal disputes). Yeb. 115ᵇ לפ׳ שבקיה he left the letters that were to mark the contents as sacred on the vessel merely for protection (that it might be spared by thievish servants).