פֶּלֶג
peleg · channel, stream
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6388 · appears 10 times in the Bible
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peleg (פֶּלֶג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “channel, stream”.
A small stream or channel of water, like those used for irrigation.
How to say it
pe·leg
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Water running in a channel.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- streams ×9
- stream ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 29:6
when my steps were washed in curds, and the rock poured out beside me streams of oil.
- Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, that gives its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and all that he does prospers.
- Psalms 46:4
A river, its streams make glad the city of Elohim, the holy place of the dwellings of Elyon.
- Psalms 65:9
You have visited the land and watered it; greatly you enrich it. The stream of Elohim is full of water; you prepare their grain, for so you prepare it.
- Psalms 119:136
My eyes run down with streams of water, because they do not keep your instruction.
- Proverbs 5:16
Should your springs be scattered outside, streams of water in the squares?
- Proverbs 21:1
Streams of water is the heart of the king in the hand of YHWH; he turns it to whatever he wishes.
- Isaiah 30:25
And there will be, on every high mountain and on every lofty hill, streams, channels of water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Isaiah 32:2
And each one will be like a cover from the wind and a hiding place from the downpour, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shade of a heavy crag in a weary land.
- Lamentations 3:48
My eye runs down with streams of water because of the shattering of the daughter of my people.