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# פָּלַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6428

**roll in** — used 4 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

roll in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6428/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּלַשׁ: vb. roll in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6428/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. act of mourning, poss. roll in (dust, etc.; weakened from burrow into) (NH Pi. break open, or through; Assyrian palâšu, dig a hole; Syriac ܦܠܰܫ dig or break through; but connexion dub., Vrss mostly besprinkle oneself, Aq roll oneself);—Pf. 1 s. עָפָר הִתְפַּלָּ֑שְׁתִּי Mi 1:10 Kt (Qr Imv. -פַּלָּ֑שִׁי, others mpl. -פַּלָּ֑שׁוּ); Impf. 3 mpl. כָּאֵפֶר יִתְפַּלָּ֑שׁוּ Ez 27:30, so Imv. fs. הִתְפַּלְּשִׁי בָאֵפֶר Je 6:26 (cf. Mi 1:10 Qr); abs., mpl. הִתְפַּלְּשׁוּ 25:34.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: roll (1); roll \[in ashes\] (1); roll yourself (1).

## In the verses

[Micah 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.10/#tree)

בְּגַת֙ אַל־תַּגִּ֔ידוּ בָּכ֖וֹ אַל־תִּבְכּ֑וּ בְּבֵ֣ית לְעַפְרָ֔ה בֵ֣ית לְעַפְרָ֔ה עָפָ֖ר הִתְפַּלָּֽשִׁי׃

*Word for word:* in Gath do.not tell at.all.(weep) do.not weep in Beth Leaphrah dust roll.yourself

*JPS 1917:* Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

[Ezekiel 27:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.30/#tree)

וְהִשְׁמִ֤יעוּ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ בְּקוֹלָ֔ם וְיִזְעֲק֖וּ מָרָ֑ה וְיַעֲל֤וּ עָֽפָר֙ עַל־רָ֣אשֵׁיהֶ֔ם בָּאֵ֖פֶר יִתְפַּלָּֽשׁוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.make.heard on you (in) voice their and they.will.cry.out bitter and they.will.bring.up dust on heads their in (the) ash\[es\] they.will.roll

*JPS 1917:* And shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall roll themselves in the ashes;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6428/): 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).