Word

פֶּלַח

pelach · H6400 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Thing

Millstones, millHousehold14 verses

Meanings

half, slice

One part of an item divided into two or more parts

Examples
1 Samuel 30:12 They also gave him a slice of fig cake and two cakes of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit revived. For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.
Song of Solomon 4:3 “Your lips are like a scarlet thread, And your mouth is beautiful. Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
Song of Solomon 6:7 “Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
millstone

One of two stones used to grind grain into flour, where the grain was placed on the stationary bottom stone and the top stone was pressed down and scraped back and forth, associated with hardness

Examples
Judges 9:53 But a woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
2 Samuel 11:21 ‘Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did a woman not throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you move against the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.’”
Job 41:24 “His heart is as firm as a stone, And as firm as a lower millstone.

How it’s used In 5 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

רֶכֶבchariot, chariots 2
רִמּוֹןpomegranate 2
דְּבֵלָהfig cake 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

תַּחְתִּיlower 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

שָׁלַךְto cast, to throw 2
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

רַקָּהtemple 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 4

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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Near synonyms 1 word

חֵלֶק chêleq · H2506 · part, portion, share: Hebrew חֵלֶק is a common synonym for a piece or portion, often used in contexts of division or allotment, and could substitute for פֶּלַח in many contexts referring to a divided portion.

In the other Testament 2 words

μέρος méros · G3313 · part, aspect, feature: Greek μέρος is a standard translation equivalent for Hebrew פֶּלַח when referring to a piece or portion of something, particularly in contexts of division or distribution.
κλάσμα klásma · G2801 · fragment, piece: Greek κλάσμα specifically refers to a broken piece or fragment, which aligns well with פֶּלַח as a piece resulting from cutting or division.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Tools001003001001017: פֶּלַח denotes a piece, most notably a millstone, a worked implement for grinding grain.

Word family 4 words

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

פָּלַח pâlach · H6398 · to cleave, to slash, to pierce · 5×פְּלַח pᵉlach · H6399 · minister, serve · 10×פֶּלַחpelach · H6400פׇּלְחָן polchân · H6402 · service · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6400. pelach מֶּ֫לַח noun feminine Job 41:16 cleavage, mill-stone (mill cleft between…

H6400. pelach
מֶּ֫לַח noun feminine Job 41:16 cleavage, mill-stone (mill cleft between the stones ? compare GFMJu; מִּלְחָא ᵑ7); — ׳פ absolute Job 41:16, elsewhere construct; —
1.a. mill-stone, ׳פ רֶכֶב mill-stone of riding, i.e. upper stone, which is turned (compare רֶכֶב), Jdg 9:53; 2Sa 11:21; ׳פ תַּחְתִּית Job 41:16 lower mill-stone (simile of hardness).
b. ׳פ דְּבֵלָה 1Sa 30:12 a cake of figs (from shape ?).
2 cleavge, split, hence slice ׳פ הָרִמּוֺן Son 4:3=Son 6:7 simile of human temple (from colour, compare Wetzst in DeComm. Excurs.A).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Tools3 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