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# פָּלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6398

**cleave** — used 5 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

cleave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6398/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּלַח: vb. cleave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6398/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cleave (Arabic فَلَحَ cleave; Aramaic פְּלַח (usually), ܦܠܰܚ, are till, work, serve \[= עָבַד\]);— Pt. פֹּלֵהַ ψ 141:7 of cleaving, ploughing, בָּאָרֶץ (‖בקע). Impf. cleave open, through, 3 ms. יְפַלַּח of piercing kidneys Jb 16:13, liver Pr 7:23 (both fig.); וַיְּפַלַּח אֶל 2 K 4:39 of cutting up (fruit) into pot. cause to cleave open, 3 fpl. יַלְדֵיהֶן תְּפַלַּחְנָה Jb 39:3 of animals bringing forth young, read perhaps תְּפַלַּטְנָה (21:10).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] plows (1); he pierces (1); he sliced \[them\] (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.3/#tree)

תִּ֭כְרַעְנָה יַלְדֵיהֶ֣ן תְּפַלַּ֑חְנָה חֶבְלֵיהֶ֥ם תְּשַׁלַּֽחְנָה׃

*Word for word:* they.kneel.down young their they.cleave.open labor-pains their they.send.forth

*JPS 1917:* They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they cast out their fruit.

[Psalms 141:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.7/#tree)

כְּמ֤וֹ פֹלֵ֣חַ וּבֹקֵ֣עַ בָּאָ֑רֶץ נִפְזְר֥וּ עֲ֝צָמֵ֗ינוּ לְפִ֣י שְׁאֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* like \[one.who\].plows and \[one.who\].breaks.up (in) the earth they.have.been.scattered bones our to the.mouth of.Sheol

*JPS 1917:* As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6398.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6398/): 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).