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# פֶּלֶג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6389

**Peleg** — used 7 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

Peleg [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6389/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫לֶג: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6389/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Eber, Φαλεκ, 𝔊L Φαλεγ: Gn 10:25; 11:17, 18, 19; 1 Ch 1:19, 25, פָּ֑לֶג Gn 11:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Peleg (5); \[was\] Peleg (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.25/#tree)

עֵ֥בֶר פֶּ֖לֶג רְעֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* Eber Peleg Reu

*JPS 1917:* Eber, Peleg, Reu;

[Genesis 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.18/#tree)

וַֽיְחִי־פֶ֖לֶג שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־רְעֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Peleg thirty year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Reu

*JPS 1917:* And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6389.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6389/): 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).