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# פָּלַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6385

**split** — used 4 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

split [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6385/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּלַג: vb. split, divide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6385/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. split, divide (NH chiefly in secondary meanings and deriv.; Arabic فَلَجَ divide, split; Aramaic פְּלֵיג, ܦܠܰܓ divide; Ethiopic ፈለግ ravine, stream; Assyrian palgu, canal);— Pf. 3 fs. נִפְלְגָה Gn 10:25; 1 Ch 1:19 was divided (earth). Pf. 3 ms. פִּלַּג Jb 38:25 cleave a channel for rain. Imv. ms. פַּלַּג (Ges§ 52 n) ψ 55:10 divide their speech (their counsels).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was divided (2); divide (1); does he divide (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.25/#tree)

מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* who? does.he.divide for the flood a.channel and a.path for.\[the\] storm of.thunder.claps

*JPS 1917:* Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;

[Psalms 55:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.10/#tree)

בַּלַּ֣ע אֲ֭דֹנָי פַּלַּ֣ג לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם כִּֽי־רָאִ֨יתִי חָמָ֖ס וְרִ֣יב בָּעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* confuse Lord my divide tongue their (dm) I.have.seen violence and strife in the city

*JPS 1917:* Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6385.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6385/): 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).