Strong H6400פֶּ֫לַח
millstone
- Transliteration
- pelach
- Pronunciation
- peh'-lakh
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From H6398; a slice: - piece.
Detailed definition
STEP sense: millstone
Exact lexical definition: cleavage
Part of speech: noun
BDB context: פֶּ֫לַח n.f . cleavage , mill-stone
In the Bible
Strong H6400 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- piece6
First verses
- Judges 9:53And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
- 1 Samuel 30:12And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 2 Samuel 11:21Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- Job 41:24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
- Song of Songs 4:3Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
- Song of Songs 6:7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.