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פֶּלֶג

peleg · channel, stream

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6388 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

  1. 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.