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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #6400 - פֶּלַח
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) cleavage, mill-stone, cut, slice, part cut off
1a) mill-stone
1b) cleavage, slice
- Book
- Word
2608) hlp (פלהה PLHh) AC: Slice CO: ? AB: ?: The cutting off of a piece of something.
V) hlp (פלהה PLHh) - I. Slice:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Serve:[Unknown connection to root; Aramaic only] KJV (15): (vf: Paal, Piel) cut, shred, cleave, bring forth, strike, serve, minister - Strongs: H6398 (פָּלַח), H6399 (פְּלַח)
Nf) hlp (פלהה PLHh) - Part: As what is sliced off. KJV (6): piece - Strongs: H6400 (פֶּלַח)
mm) nhlp (פלההנ PLHhN) - Service: [Unknown connection to root; Aramaic only] KJV (1): service - Strongs: H6402 (פָּלְחָן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1.a. mill-stone, רֶכֶב׳פ mill-stone of riding, i.e. upper stone, which is turned (compare רֶכֶב), Judges 9:53; 2 Samuel 11:21; תַּחְתִּית׳פ Job 41:16 lower mill-stone (simile of hardness).
b. דְּבֵלָה׳פ 1 Samuel 30:12 a cake of figs (from shape ?).
2 cleavge, split, hence slice הָרִמּוֺן׳פ Song of Solomon 4:3= Song of Solomon 6:7 simile of human temple (from colour, compare Wetzst in De Comm. Excurs.A).
פֶּלַח f. (Job 41:16).
(1) a part cut off, a slice of an apple, or fig, Song of Solomon 4:3; 1 Samuel 30:12.
(2) a mill-stone, so called from the even and cut away part, which is the lower in the upper mill-stone, the upper in the nether. Arab. فَلِيخُ And the upper mill-stone is fully called פֶּלַח רֶכֶב (the rider-stone), Judges 9:53; 2 Samuel 11:21 and simply רֶכֶב, the lower פֶּלַח תַּחְתִּית Job 41:16.
