H6398: פָּלַח
pâlach · pronounced paw-lakh' · “to cleave”
Definition
to slice, i.e. break open or pierce
KJV translates it as: bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to cleave, plow
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to cleave open or through
1b2) to cause to cleave open
1b3) to slice, pierce
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6398 is translated
- he sliced them ×1
- he splits open ×1
- they cleave open ×1
- one who plows ×1
- it will pierce ×1
Bible verses with H6398 (pâlach)
Pâlach appears in 5 verses.
- 2 Kings 4:39
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
- Job 16:13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- Job 39:3
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
- Psalms 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
- Proverbs 7:23
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.