PIECE.Piece is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] for (1) a measure equal to a firkin (1Es_8:20 an hundred pieces of wine); (2) an instrument of war (1Ma_6:51 pieces to cast darts, and slings).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
pēs: 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 (Gen_15:10; 2Sa_6:19; Eze_24:4); of bread or cake (1Sa_2:36; 1Sa_30:12; Jer_37:21); of ground or land (2Sa_23:11); of wall (Neh_3:11, Neh_3:19 ff); of an ear (Amo_3:12); of cloth or garment (1Ki_11:30); of millstone (Jdg_9:53). It is used frequently in paraphrastic renderings of various Hebrew verbs: ?break,? ?tear,? ?cut,? etc., in pieces (Gen_44:28, etc.).
In the New Testament ?piece? renders ἐπίβλημα, epı́blēma, ?piece? or ?patch of cloth? (Mat_9:16; Mar_2:21; Luk_5:36). It is also found in paraphrastic renderings - broken in pieces (Mar_5:4), pulled in pieces (Act_23:10).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.