Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6418
פֶּלֶךְ
pelekpeh'-lek
district
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 H6418is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6418
a circuit (i.e. district); also a spindle (as whirled); hence, a crutch
The King James renders it: (di-) staff, participle
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
pelek is rendered "district". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 3:29May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
2 Samuel 3:29בַּפֶּ֛לֶךְ
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
- district of7
- for district his1
- on the spindle1
- spindle1
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.
The words it stands beside
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
- פֶּ֣לֶךְ4
- פֶּ֥לֶךְ2
- בַּפֶּ֛לֶךְ1
- לְפִלְכּֽוֹ׃ ס1
- פֶ֥לֶךְ1
- פָֽלֶךְ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
2 Samuel
one use
May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
- בַּפֶּ֛לֶךְbapelekhpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: on the spindle
Nehemiah
eight uses
Next to them, Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, made repairs;
- פֶּ֥לֶךְpelekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: district of
And next to them, Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of the other half-district of Jerusalem, made repairs, with the help of his daughters.
- פֶּ֣לֶךְpelekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: district of
The Dung Gate was repaired by Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem. He rebuilt it and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.
- פֶּ֣לֶךְpelekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: district of
The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofed it, and installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah near the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.
- פֶּ֣לֶךְpelekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: district of
Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth-zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Mighty.
- פֶּ֣לֶךְpelekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: district of
Next to him, the Levites made repairs under Rehum son of Bani, and next to him, Hashabiah, ruler of a half-district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
- פֶ֥לֶךְfelekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: district of
- לְפִלְכּֽוֹ׃ סlefilkopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for district his
Next to him, their countrymen made repairs under Binnui son of Henadad, ruler of the other half-district of Keilah.
- פֶּ֥לֶךְpelekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: district of
Proverbs
one use
She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
- פָֽלֶךְ׃falekhnoun · masculine singulartagged: spindle
The letters
Gematria 130· 610 mispar gadol
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.