Hebrew verb · H6398
פָּלַח
palachpaw-lakh'
to cleave
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pâlach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6398is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6398
to slice, i.e. break open or pierce
The King James renders it: bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.
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
palach is rendered "to cleave". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 4:39One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
2 Kings 4:39וַיְפַלַּ֛ח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he sliced1
- he splits open1
- it will pierce1
- plows1
- they cleave open1
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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וַיְפַלַּ֛ח1
- יְפַלַּ֣ח1
- יְפַלַּ֪ח1
- פֹלֵ֣חַ1
- תְּפַלַּ֑חְנָה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpi3ms
- Hc/Vpw3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural1HVpi3fp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
2 Kings
one use
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
- וַיְפַלַּ֛חvayfalachHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he sliced
Job
two uses
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
- יְפַלַּ֣חyefalachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he splits open
They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
- תְּפַלַּ֑חְנָהtefalachnahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they cleave open
Psalms
one use
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
- פֹלֵ֣חַfoleachverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: plows
Proverbs
one use
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
- יְפַלַּ֪חyefalachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will pierce
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.