Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6388
פֶּלֶג
pelegpeh'-leg
stream
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6388is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6388
a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)
The King James renders it: river, stream.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
peleg is rendered "stream". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 29:6when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
Job 29:6פַּלְגֵי־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's ten uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- streams of6
- like streams of1
- stream of1
- streams1
- streams its1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פֶּלֶא | pele | wonder | Uses13 |
| פֶּלֶךְ | pelek | district | Uses10 |
| פֶּלַח | pelach | millstone | Uses6 |
| פֶּלֶס | peles | balance | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- פַּלְגֵי־5
- כְּפַלְגֵי־1
- פֶּ֣לֶג1
- פַּלְגֵ֫י1
- פְּלָגָ֗יו1
- פְּלָגִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
Job
one use
when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
- פַּלְגֵי־palgei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: streams of
Psalms
four uses
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- פַּלְגֵ֫יpalgeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: streams of
There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
- פְּלָגָ֗יוpelagavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: streams its
You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- פֶּ֣לֶגpelegnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: stream of
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
- פַּלְגֵי־palgei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: streams of
Proverbs
two uses
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
- פַּלְגֵי־palgei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: streams of
The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
- פַּלְגֵי־palgei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: streams of
Isaiah
two uses
And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- פְּלָגִ֖יםpelagimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: streams
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
- כְּפַלְגֵי־kefalgei-preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like streams of
Lamentations
one use
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- פַּלְגֵי־palgei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: streams of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.