Word

פֶּלֶךְ

pelek · H6418 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Thing

SpindleCloth manufacture2 verses

Meanings

whorl

Wooden weight located at the top of the spindle; used to make it steady

Examples
2 Samuel 3:29 “May it turn upon the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not be eliminated from the house of Joab someone who suffers a discharge, or has leprosy, or holds the spindle, or falls by the sword, or lacks bread.”
Proverbs 31:19 She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands grasp the spindle.
district

An area within a town

Examples
Nehemiah 3:9 And next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, the official of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.
Nehemiah 3:12 Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the official of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs, he and his daughters.
Nehemiah 3:14 And Malchijah the son of Rechab, the official of the district of Beth-haccherem repaired the Dung Gate. He built it and installed its doors with its bolts and its bars.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 4 groups

יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםJerusalem 2
קְעִילָהKeilah 2
מִצְפָּהMizpah 1
הוּhis 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

תָּמַךְto grasp 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 2
לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 2 groups

חֵצִיhalf 5
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 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 2 entries

Tools001003001001017: פֶּלֶךְ denotes a spindle or distaff, a hand tool used in spinning thread, as of the virtuous woman's hands taking hold of the distaff in Proverbs 31:19.
Towns001003002011: The same word also denotes a district, an administrative division named for its towns, as of the many districts of returned exiles who repaired sections of Jerusalem's wall in Nehemiah 3.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6418. pelek מֶּ֫לֶךְ noun [masculine] 1 whirl of spindle. 2 district (properly circle,…

H6418. pelek
מֶּ֫לֶךְ noun [masculine]
1 whirl of spindle.
2 district (properly circle, circuit); — absolute ׳פ 2Sa 3:29, מָּ֑לֶךְ Pro 31:19; construct מֶּלֶךְ Neh 3:9 +; suffix מִּלְכּוֺ Neh 3:17; —
1 whirl of spindle, 2Sa 3:29 (probably, see Dr), Pro 31:19 (|| כִּישׁוֺר).
2 district, Neh 3:9, Neh 3:12, Neh 3:14, Neh 3:15, Neh 3:16, Neh 3:17 (twice in verse); Neh 3:18.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Tools2 occurrences Towns7 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