STRONGS NUMBER H6424


Word Summary
palas: to weigh, make level
Original Word: פָלַס
Transliteration: palas
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-las')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to weigh, make level
Meaning: to roll flat, prepare, to revolve, weigh
Strong's Concordance
make, ponder, weigh

A primitive root; properly, to roll flat, i.e. Prepare (a road); also to revolve, i.e. Weigh (mentally) -- make, ponder, weigh.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6424. palas

[מָּלַס‎] verb Pi`el denominative weigh, make level (Phoenician פלס‎ Pi`el make level (?) in proper names); — Imperfect3masculine singular יְפַלֵּסPsalm 78:20; 2masculine plural תְּפַלֵּס֑וּן58:3 (see below), etc.; Imperative masculine singular מַּלֵּסProverbs 4:26; Participle מְפַלֵּס5:11; —

1 weign out תּפי יְדֵיכֶם חֲמַסPsalm 58:3 (figurative; but read perhaps תְּפַלֵּסְנָה יְדֵיכֶם תָמָסviolence do your hands weigh out, so ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ᵐ5‎ Bae Kau We).

2 make level, smooth (compare Gerber32), with accusative of path (figurative), מַעְגָּלProverbs 4:26; 5:21; Isaiah 26:7, נָתִּיבPsalm 78:50, אֹרַחProverbs 5:6.