päḥā - governor (HALOT 923)

< Akk. pīḫatu, pāḫatu (Kaufman 1974, 82, EDA P 7). The Massoretic vocalization of the Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic forms unambiguously points to a geminated guttural in the proto-form (*paḥḥ-at-), сf. Mankowski 2000, 128f.