H6400: פֶּלַח
pelach · pronounced peh'-lakh · “millstone”
Definition
a slice
KJV translates it as: piece.
Word origin: from H6398 (פָּלַח);
Extended definition
1a) mill-stone
1b) cleavage, slice
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6400 is translated
- a mill-stone ×2
- the slice of ×2
- a mill-stone of ×1
- a slice of ×1
Bible verses with H6400 (pelach)
Pelach appears in 6 verses.
- Judges 9:53
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
- 1 Samuel 30:12
And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 2 Samuel 11:21
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- Job 41:24
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
- Song of Solomon 4:3
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
- Song of Solomon 6:7
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.