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# פֶּלֶג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6388

**channel** — used 10 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

channel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6388/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫לג: n.m. channel canal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6388/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 65:10 (cleft) channel, (artif.) canal;—usually pl. פְּלָגִים Is 30:25 (+ יִבְלֵי־מָ֑יִם); cstr. פַּלְגֵי־מַיִם ψ 1:3, sim. Is 32:2; Pr 21:1, metaph. 5:16, of tears La 3:48 ψ 119:136; פְּלָגָיו ψ 46:5 (i.e. irrigating canals from river, metaph.); פַּלְגֵי־שָׁ֑מֶן Jb 29:6 (fig. of prosperity); sg. פֶּלֶג אֱלֹהִים ψ 65:10, poet. of channel for rain (cf. Jb 38:25).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: streams (8); \[is\] streams (1); the stream (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 46:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.5/#tree)

נָהָ֗ר פְּלָגָ֗יו יְשַׂמְּח֥וּ עִיר־אֱלֹהִ֑ים קְ֝דֹ֗שׁ מִשְׁכְּנֵ֥י עֶלְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* a.river streams its they.make.glad the.city of.God the.holy.\[place\] of.the.dwellings of.the.Most.High

*JPS 1917:* There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holiest dwelling-place of the Most High.

[Psalms 119:136](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.136/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.136/#tree)

פַּלְגֵי־מַ֭יִם יָרְד֣וּ עֵינָ֑י עַ֝֗ל לֹא־שָׁמְר֥וּ תוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* streams of.water they.have.gone.down eyes my because not people.keep law your

*JPS 1917:* Mine eyes run down with rivers of water, because they observe not Thy law.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6388.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6388/): 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).