Strong’s H6398 · Hebrew
פָּלַח
pâlach · paw-lakh'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to slice, i.e. break open or pierce
In the King James Version bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Kings 4:39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
- Job 16:13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- Job 39:3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
- Psalms 141:7Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
- Proverbs 7:23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.