palach · split open, pierce

What it means

palach (פָּלַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “split open, pierce”.

To cut in pieces, to split, to pierce.

How to say it

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

1. To cut something open or into pieces; to pierce through.
2. To plow, to open furrows in the ground.
3. To give birth, to let the young come out into the world.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cut them up ×1
• he splits open ×1
• one who plows ×1
• pierces ×1
• they bring forth ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1

• 2 Kings 4:39

  One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds, his garment full, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.

• Job 16:13

  His archers surround me; he splits open my kidneys and does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground.

• Job 39:3

  They crouch, they bring forth their young; they cast off their pains.

• Psalms 141:7

  As one who plows and breaks open the earth, our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

• Proverbs 7:23

  until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird hurries to the snare, and does not know that his soul is at stake in it.