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# פָּלַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6424

**weigh** — used 2 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

weigh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6424/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּלַס: vb.Pi.denom. weigh, make level [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6424/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Pi.denom. weigh, make level (Ph. פלס Pi. make level(?) in n.pr.);—Impf. 3 ms. יְפַלֵּס ψ 78:50; 2 mpl. תְּפַלֵּס֑וּן ψ 58:3 (v. infr.), etc.; Imv. ms. פַּלֵּס Pr 4:26; Pt. מְפַלֵּס 5:11;— weigh out חֲמַס יְדֵיכֶם תּפ׳ ψ 58:3 (fig.; but read perhaps חָמָס יְדֵיכֶם תְּפַלֵּסְנָה violence do your hands weigh out, so 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 Bae Kau We). make level, smooth (cf. Gerber 32). c. acc. of path (fig.), מַעְגָּל Pr 4:26; 5:21; Is 26:7, נָתִיב ψ 78:50, אֹרַח Pr 5:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he made level (1); you make level (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 26:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.7/#tree)

אֹ֥רַח לַצַּדִּ֖יק מֵֽישָׁרִ֑ים יָשָׁ֕ר מַעְגַּ֥ל צַדִּ֖יק תְּפַלֵּֽס׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].way of the righteous \[is\].level.paths O.upright.\[one\] \[the\].track of.\[the\].righteous you.make.level

*JPS 1917:* The way of the just is straight; Thou, Most Upright, makest plain the path of the just.

[Psalms 78:50](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.50/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.50/#tree)

יְפַלֵּ֥ס נָתִ֗יב לְאַ֫פּ֥וֹ לֹא־חָשַׂ֣ךְ מִמָּ֣וֶת נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם לַדֶּ֥בֶר הִסְגִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* he.made.level a.path for anger his not he.kept.back from death life their and life their to the pestilence he.delivered.up

*JPS 1917:* He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6424.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6424/): 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).