King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6400
Transliteration: pelach
Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-lakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: cleavage, a millstone
Meaning: cleavage, a millstone
Word Summary
pelach: cleavage, a millstone
Original Word: פֶלַחTransliteration: pelach
Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-lakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: cleavage, a millstone
Meaning: cleavage, a millstone
Strong's Concordance
piece From palach; a slice -- piece.
see HEBREW palach
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6400. pelach
מֶּ֫לַח noun feminine Job 41:16 cleavage, mill-stone (mill cleft between the stones ? compare GFMJu; מִּלְחָא ᵑ7); — ׳פ absolute 41:16, elsewhere construct; —
1.a. mill-stone, ׳פ רֶכֶב mill-stone of riding, i.e. upper stone, which is turned (compare רֶכֶב), Judges 9:53; 2 Samuel 11:21; ׳פ תַּחְתִּית Job 41:16 lower mill-stone (simile of hardness).
b. ׳פ דְּבֵלָה 1 Samuel 30:12 a cake of figs (from shape ?).
2 cleavge, split, hence slice ׳פ הָרִמּוֺן Song of Solomon 4:3=6:7 simile of human temple (from colour, compare Wetzst in DeComm. Excurs.A).