Word

פָּלַח

pâlach · H6398 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to cleave, to slash, to pierce

Causative action by which humans use a sharp implement to split an object, either partially or completely

Examples
Job 16:13 “His arrows surround me. He splits my kidneys open without mercy; He pours out my bile on the ground.
Psalm 141:7 As when one plows and breaks open the earth, Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Proverbs 7:23 Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hurries to the snare, So he does not know that it will cost him his life.
to cast forth

Literally: to cleave; hence: process by which animals bring forth new offspring

Examples
Job 39:3 “They kneel down, they deliver their young, They get rid of their labor pains.
to slice

Literally: to cleave; hence: causative action by which humans uses a knife to cut an object into thin, flat pieces

Examples
2 Kings 4:39 Then one went out into the field to gather mallow, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds; and he came and sliced them into the pot of stew, because they did not know what they were.

How it’s used In 3 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

Not stated: he, she or it 2
חֵץarrow 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

יֶלֶדchild, young man 1
כָּבֵדheavy 1
כִּלְיָהkidneys, heart 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward+ סִירthorns 1
בin/on/with+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1

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 4 entries

Impact002001001024: פָּלַח means to pierce or strike through, as of arrows piercing through the liver in Proverbs 7:23 and kidneys split open without mercy in Job 16:13.
Birth002002002003: The word is also used of animals bringing forth their young, as of the wild goats that cleave open and deliver their young in Job 39:3.
Non-Whole002003001021: The word describes cutting or slicing something into pieces, as of the wild gourds sliced into the pot of stew in 2 Kings 4:39.
Serve002003002023: This domain's connection to פָּלַח is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of piercing, cleaving, and slicing.

Word family 4 words

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

פָּלַחpâlach · H6398פְּלַח pᵉlach · H6399 · minister, serve · 10×פֶּלַח pelach · H6400 · half, slice, millstone · 6×פׇּלְחָן polchân · H6402 · service · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6398. palach [מָּלַח] verb cleave (Arabic cleave; Aramaic מְּלַח (usually),, are till,…

H6398. palach
[מָּלַח] verb cleave (Arabic cleave; Aramaic מְּלַח (usually),, are till, work, serve [=עָבַד]); —
Qal Participle מֹּלֵחַ Psa 141:7 of cleaving, ploughing, בָּאָרֶץ (|| בקע).
Pi`el Imperfect
1 cleave open, through, 3 masculine singular יְפַלַּח of piercing kidneys Job 16:13, liver Pro 7:23 (both figurative); אֶל וַיְּפַלַּח 2Ki 4:39 of cutting up (fruit) into pot.
2 cause to cleave open, 3 feminine plural תְּפַלַּחְנָה יַלְדֵיהֶן Job 39:3 of animals bringing forth young; read perhaps תְּפַלַּטְנָה (Job 21:10).

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

Topical studies with this word 4 entries

Impact3 occurrences Birth1 occurrence Non-Whole1 occurrence Serve0 occurrences

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