here
poh marks a present location, often “here,” and in paired descriptions identifies this side and that side.
The adverb chiefly points to a location where people are present, remain, arrive, act, or are addressed. In repeated paired descriptions, it identifies corresponding positions on one side and the other side.
Senses in use
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A present place or location · dominant
The adverb identifies the place occupied or indicated in a scene: in 1 Kings 19:9 the APB renders the question to Elijah, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”; in 2 Kings 2:2 it renders Elijah’s instruction, “Please stay here.” It also marks the location of actions or persons, as in Ezekiel 8:6, where the house of Israel is doing abominations “here,” and Genesis 22:5, where Abraham tells the young men to remain at the indicated place.
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One side in a paired spatial arrangement · common
In measurement and architectural descriptions, the adverb occurs repeatedly in contrasting paired positions. In Ezekiel 40:48 the APB renders measurements “from this side and from that side,” while Ezekiel 41:19 describes a human face toward a palm on one side and a lion’s face toward a palm on the other.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the location with “here,” especially in questions, commands, and statements of presence. In Ezekiel’s paired measurements it often uses “this side” and “that side”; these are renderings of the verse context rather than definitions.