Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6400
פֶּלַח
pelachpeh'-lakh
millstone
6 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 H6400is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6400
a slice
The King James renders it: piece.
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
pelach is rendered "millstone". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 9:53But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
Judges 9:53פֶּ֥לַח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like slice of2
- a mill-stone1
- a mill-stone of1
- a slice of1
- like a mill-stone1
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 6, 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
- כְּפֶ֤לַח2
- כְּפֶ֣לַח1
- פֶ֨לַח1
- פֶּ֥לַח1
- פֶּ֨לַח1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Judges
one use
But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
- פֶּ֥לַחpelachnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a mill-stone of
1 Samuel
one use
a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
- פֶ֨לַחfelachnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a slice of
2 Samuel
one use
Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
- פֶּ֨לַחpelachnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a mill-stone
Job
one use
His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
- כְּפֶ֣לַחkefelachpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: like a mill-stone
Song of Solomon
two uses
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
- כְּפֶ֤לַחkefelachpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like slice of
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
- כְּפֶ֤לַחkefelachpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like slice 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.