Bible Dictionary
PIECE
In the Bible, piece may refer to a portion of meat, bread, land, cloth, a wall, or another object. In the New Testament it also means a patch of cloth or a fragment.
Definition
A piece is a portion or fragment of something. In biblical usage it may mean a piece of meat, bread, land, wall, ear, cloth, millstone, or another object. It may also be used in expressions describing something broken, torn, cut, or pulled apart.
Biblical Usage
The Old Testament uses piece for portions of food, land, walls, clothing, and other objects. In the New Testament it can mean a patch of cloth, as in the teaching about putting a new piece on an old garment, and it appears in phrases meaning broken or pulled apart.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>pes: In the King James Version the word (singular and plural) represents a large number of different Hebrew words, many of which have more or less the same significance, e.g. piece of meat or flesh (Ge 15:10; 2Sa 6:19; Eze 24:4); of bread or cake (1Sa 2:36; 30:12; Jer 37:21); of ground or land (2Sa 23:11); of wall (Ne 3:11,19); of an ear (Am 3:12); of cloth or garment (1Ki 11:30); of millstone (Jud 9:53). It is used frequently in paraphrastic renderings of various Hebrew verbs: "break," "tear," "cut," etc., in pieces (Ge 44:28, etc.).</p><p>In the New Testament "piece" renders epiblema, "piece" or "patch of cloth" (Mt 9:16; Mr 2:21; Lu 5:36). It is also found in paraphrastic renderings--broken in pieces (Mr 5:4), pulled in pieces (Ac 23:10).</p><p>T. Lewis</p>