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# פְּלֻגָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6390

**division** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

division [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6390/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּלֻגָּה: n.f. division [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6390/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. division (= מַחֲלֹקֶת q.v.), of priests, for service;—pl. cstr. פְּלֻגּוֹת 2 Ch 35:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the divisions (2); streams (1).

## In the verses

[Job 20:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.17/#tree)

אַל־יֵ֥רֶא בִפְלַגּ֑וֹת נַהֲרֵ֥י נַ֝חֲלֵ֗י דְּבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* not may.he.look on streams rivers of.torrents of.honey and curd\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.

[Judges 5:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/#tree)

לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* why? did.you.sit between the.two saddlebaskets to hear \[the\].whistling of.\[the\].flocks to the.divisions of.Reuben \[were\].great searchings of.heart

*JPS 1917:* Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6390/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).