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# פֶּלֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew

**whirl of spindle** — used 8 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

whirl of spindle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫לֶךְ: whirl of spindle district [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] 1. whirl of spindle. 2. district (proposes circle, circuit);—abs. פ׳ 2 S 3:29, פָּ֑לֶךְ Pr 31:19; cstr. פֶּלֶךְ Ne 3:9 +; sf. פִּלְכּוֹ v 17;— whirl of spindle, 2 S 3:29 (prob., v. Dr), Pr 31:19 (‖ כִּישׁוֹר). district, Ne 3:9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17(×2), 18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of the district (7); district (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.9/#tree)

וְעַל־יָדָ֤ם הֶחֱזִיק֙ רְפָיָ֣ה בֶן־ח֔וּר שַׂ֕ר חֲצִ֖י פֶּ֥לֶךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and on hand their he.repaired Rephaiah the.son of.Hur the.official of.(the).half of.the.district of.Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem.

[Nehemiah 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.18/#tree)

אַחֲרָיו֙ הֶחֱזִ֣יקוּ אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם בַּוַּ֖י בֶּן־חֵנָדָ֑ד שַׂ֕ר חֲצִ֖י פֶּ֥לֶךְ קְעִילָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* after him they.repaired brothers their Bavvai the.son of.Henadad the.official of.(the).half of.the.district of.Keilah

*JPS 1917:* After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b6_5bc_5dc_5b6_5da_5b0/): 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).