H6400 פֶּלַח (pelach) peh'-lakh

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

millstone

Strong's Definition

a slice

Derivation: from H6398 (פָּלַח);

KJV Usage: piece.

TWOT Reference: 1773a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) cleavage, mill-stone, cut, slice, part cut off

1a) mill-stone

1b) cleavage, slice

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2801 G3011 G3458

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫לַח (pe.lach) — millstone. 1) cleavage, mill-stone, cut, slice, part cut off 1a) mill-stone 1b) cleavage, slice

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

פֶּלַח (H6400)

noun f · פלח

half, slice = one part of an item divided into two or more parts

1SA 30:12 · SNG 4:3 · SNG 6:7

Tools

millstone = one of two stones ► that are used to grind grain into flour; the grain was placed on the stationary bottom stone, and the top stone was pressed down on top of the grain and scraped back and forth; ≈ associated with hardness

JDG 9:53 · 2SA 11:21 · JOB 41:16

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫לַח n.f. cleavage, mill-stone base

Bible Occurrences (4)

9:53

30:12

11:21

41:24

Judges 9:53

But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.

1 Samuel 30:12

a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived...,... for he had not had any food... [or] water for three days and three nights.

2 Samuel 11:21

Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone... on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ [If he asks you this,] then you are to say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.

Job 41:24

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!