פָּלַח
pa.lach
“to cleave”
Definition
to slice, i.e. break open or pierce
a primitive root;
- to cleave, slice 1a) (Qal) to cleave, plow 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to cleave open or through 1b2) to cause to cleave open 1b3) to slice, pierce
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
פָּלַח appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
His archers surround me.He pierces my kidneys without mercyand spills my gall on the ground.
They crouch down and bring forth their young;they deliver their newborn.
until an arrow pierces his liver,like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
As when one plows and breaks up the soil,so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.