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# פֶּלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6400

**cleavage** — used 6 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

cleavage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6400/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫לַח: n.f. cleavage, mill-stone [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6400/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Jb 41:16 cleavage, mill-stone (mill cleft betw. the stones? cf. GFMJu; 𝔗 פִּלְחָא);—פ׳ abs. Jb 41:16, elsewhere cstr.;— mill-stone, פ׳ רֶכֶב mill-stone of riding, i.e. upper stone, wh. is turned (cf. רֶכֶב), Ju 9:53; 2 S 11:21; פ׳ תַּחְתִּית Jb 41:16 lower mill-stone (sim. of hardness). cleavage, split hence slice פֶּלַח הָרִמּוֹן Ct 4:3 = 6:7 sim. of human temple (from colour; cf. Wetzstein in DelComm. Excurs. A); also פֶּלַח דְּבֵלָה slice of fig-cake 1 S 30:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a mill-stone (3); slice (2); a slice (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.16/#tree)

לִ֭בּוֹ יָצ֣וּק כְּמוֹ־אָ֑בֶן וְ֝יָצ֗וּק כְּפֶ֣לַח תַּחְתִּֽית׃

*Word for word:* heart its \[is\].hard like a.stone and \[it.is\].hard like a.mill-stone lower

*JPS 1917:* His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.

[Song of Songs 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.7/#tree)

כְּפֶ֤לַח הָרִמּוֹן֙ רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].like.(the) slice of.(the) pomegranate temple your from behind to veil your

*JPS 1917:* Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6400.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6400/): 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).