Word

פָּלָה

pâlâh · H6395 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to be different

State in which one group of people differs from another

Examples
Exodus 33:16 “For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the earth?”
to set apart

Causative action by which a deity treats one area of group of people different from another

Examples
Exodus 8:22 “But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the LORD, am in the midst of the land.
Exodus 9:4 “But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel.”’”
Exodus 11:7 ‘But not even a dog will threaten any of the sons of Israel, nor anything from person to animal, so that you may learn how the LORD distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.’

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 4 groups

יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 3
אֲנִיI 1
עַםpeople 1
Not stated: I 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

חָסִידloyal person 1
אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 4 groups

מִןfrom+ עַםpeople 1
בin/on/with+ יוֹםday, time 1
לto/for+ הָיָהto be, to become 1
לto/for+ וֹhim 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

יָדַעto know 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Dissociate002003002009: פָּלָה means to make a distinction or set apart, as of the LORD making a distinction between the livestock of Israel and Egypt in Exodus 9:4 and 11:7, and between the plagues affecting each people in Exodus 8:18, and of the psalmist made separate for the LORD's own in Psalm 4:4.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פָּלָהpâlâh · H6395פְּלוֹנִי Pᵉlôwnîy · H6397 · certain (person, place), Pelonite · 3×פְּלֹנִי pᵉlônîy · H6423 · certain (person, place) · 3×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6395. palah [מָּלָה] verb Niph`al be separated, distinct (|| form of פלא q. v.; compare…

H6395. palah
[מָּלָה] verb Niph`al be separated, distinct (|| form of פלא q. v.; compare Arabic , separate from sucking, wean; Ethiopic separate, distinguish); —
1 Perfect1plural consecutive וְנִפְלִינוּ Exo 33:16 and we shall be distinct, with מִן person
21singular נִפְלֵיתִי Psa 139:14 I am wonderful (namely in bodily stature etc.); < Vrss Hupfeld Now Bae We תָ- thou [׳י] art wonderful (פלא 3).
Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular הִפְלָה Psa 4:4, ׳וְה consecutive Exo 9:4; Exo 9:1singular וְהִפְלֵיתִי consecutive Exo 8:18; Imperfect3masculine singular יַפְלֶה Exo 11:7; Imperative masculine singular הַפְלֵה Psa 17:7; — of ׳י, make separate, with accusative Exo 8:18 (by treating differently); set apart Psa 4:4, but perhaps read לִי חֶסֶד (for Mt לוֺ חָסִיד), hath made wonderful (his) kindness to me (Dy Gr Che We Du [Bae 'perhaps']), so Psa 17:7 (compare Psa 31:22); distinguish between, בֵּין thing, Exo 9:4, בֵּין person Exo 11:7.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0