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Strong's #6385 - פָּלַג
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- to divide, split
- (Niphal) to be split, be divided
- (Piel)
- to split, cleave
- to divide
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this Strong's Number
2606) clp (פלג PLG) AC: Split CO: River AB: Division: The land is divided by rivers that mark out boundaries or sections.
V) clp (פלג PLG) - Split: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (5): (vf: Niphal, Pel) divide - Strongs: H6385 (פָּלַג), H6386 (פְּלַג)
Nm) clp (פלג PLG) - I. River:As dividing the land into two parts. II. Half:As split into two. [Aramaic only] KJV (11): river, stream, dividing - Strongs: H6387 (פְּלַג), H6388 (פֶּלֶג)
Nf1) eclp (פלגה PLGH) - I. Clan:A division within the family. II. River:[Aramaic only] KJV (3): division, river - Strongs: H6390 (פְּלַגָּה)
df1) ecflp (פלוגה PLWGH) - Clan: A division within the family. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (2): division - Strongs: H6391 (פְּלֻגָּה), H6392 (פְּלֻגָּה)
hf1) eclpm (מפלגה MPLGH) - Clan: A division within the family. KJV (1): division - Strongs: H4653 (מִפְלַגָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Niph`al Perfect 3 feminine singular נִפְלְגָה Genesis 10:25 the earth was divided.
Pi`el 1. Perfect 3 masculine singular gL'Pi`el Job 38:25 cleave a channel for rain.
2 Imperative masculine singular מַּלַּג (Ges§ 52 n) Psalm 55:10 divide their speech (their counsels).
[מְּלַג] verb divide (ᵑ7 Syriac; compare Biblical Hebrew (chiefly late)); —
Pe`al passive feminine singular מְּלִיגָה תֶּהֱוֵה Daniel 2:41 shall be divided.
פָּלַג not used in Kal. Aram. and Arabic to cleave, to divide (comp. as to the primary stock under the root פָּלָא). Hence
Niphal, to be divided, Genesis 10:25; 1 Chronicles 1:19.
Piel, to divide, as a channel, watercourse, Job 38:25. Metaph. Psalms 55:10, “divide their tongue,” cause them to fall out amongst themselves.
Derivatives, פֶּלֶג-פְּלֻגָּה, מִפְלַגָּה.